Essays Tagged: "Self-concept"

Linking Media With Fitness Perceptions, A Study on the Affect of Media on Fitness and Body Image

social fitness. However a low score in the self-acceptance scale in all three groups suggests a low self-concept within all participants. This supports my statement that there would be a connection be ... here would be a connection between the fitness concept and the media packages as well as a constant self-concept maintained by all participants.Linking Media with Fitness Perceptions:A Study on the Af ...

(5 pages) 207 0 5.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Essay on Adolescence - Learning and development. Not a bad essay written over night for a Monday hand in,surprised at the outcome will post the Bibliography when I find it

lescent development, many other kinds of changes also occur during the adolescent years; cognitive, self-concept, social / moral reasoning and the ability to think abstractly.Although this development ... c theory or learning theory. Included in the list of unexplainable processes were creativity, love, self-concept, autonomy, and identity.The core feature of humanism is that it is concerned with affec ...

(14 pages) 1457 1 4.6 May/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Written for nursing school: Self-concept is the capability of being able to see ourselves "from the outside"; the picture we gain of how other see us.

SELF-CONCEPTSelf-concept is the capability of being able to see ourselves "from the outside"; the pi ... ke care of ourselves physically, emotionally, and in the way we treat others. People who have a low self-concept may feel that they are not worth others attention or care. The development of self-conc ... Even if we grossly misinterpret our self-image those misjudgments become part of our everyday lives.Self-concept consists of four components, body image, self -esteem, identity, and role performance. ...

(9 pages) 384 1 4.9 Sep/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

LifeSpan Development -Psychology side. 'Discuss some of the Psychological Changes that Occur During Old Age.'

or example, retirement or death of a spouse. How do these occurences affect are self-esteem and are self-concept in old age.Defining who is old is not straightforward, Kastenbaum distinguishes between ... s essay we will take 'old age' to mean, anyone over 60 years old.If age is an important part of our self-concept and if society generally seems to value 'younger' much more positively than 'older', th ...

(9 pages) 592 0 4.2 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Title is Self Concept and is about how people react interpersonally by how they act in everyday life. Things in Qutations need to be changed with your information

Self-ConceptSelf-concept is basically how somebody perceives himself or herself. Self-concept is for ... e, how they talk, basically everything a person does whether is be social or non-social forms their self-concept. Self-concept also goes deeper than that. Not just interacting can form self-concept bu ... change that persons opinion of you. When this happens you have a different view of yourself and the self-concept is then changed, most likely not for the better in this case.I would probably character ...

(3 pages) 200 0 4.9 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

ADHD.

(3 pages) 142 1 3.1 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Gender Developement

said, the first question asked of a newborn baby is "Is it a boy or a girl?" A fundamental part of self-concept, not just a label written on a birth certificate. The answer to this question will, how ...

(8 pages) 364 4 4.9 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Social desirability and the manipulation of self-concepts. How the pressures of others can contribute to a shift in self image.

People crave success. Kunda and Sanitioso (1989) stated that our self-concept is malleable, that the desire to be more like others is enough for us to make subtle ch ... is malleable, that the desire to be more like others is enough for us to make subtle changes to our self-concept. 102 university students were each assigned to one of two groups. Each group was inform ... result suggested that people tend to prefer the company of people like themselves.Introduction:Are self-concepts malleable? Or do people have set views, opinions and desires that we can not change? K ...

(7 pages) 115 1 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Analyisis of Buyer Behaviour: Social Trends, Self Concept and Motivation Affecting the Consumption of Organic Products

mentioned before affect directly what is that motivates people to buy organic products. Consumer's self-concept affects directly what people value and consequently what motivates them to consume diff ... . As we explained before, some people value healthy products because they are consistent with their self-concept and therefore the force of their motivation to consume organic products is higher.Figur ...

(11 pages) 494 0 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Interpersonal relationships

AllFreeEssays.comInterpersonal relationsOne's self-concept affects one's perception, attitude and behavior, which can be demonstrated during the p ... monstrated during the process of interpersonal communication. Aspects of one's life influence their self-concept, which not only affect how people perceive them but how they perceive themselves. Such ... is widely known that in order to communicate with others one must first understand oneself. This is self-concept, and affects the way one communicates. In the process of communication, self-knowledge ...

(5 pages) 249 0 5.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Personal Barriers Paper

nformation more efficiently, transferring data between applications. So far I don't have a negative self-concept and I don't believe I'll ever have it just because I always have a plan for the future. ...

(3 pages) 63 0 0.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Adolescence and the Factors That Help Lead Us Through It

lescent development, many other kinds of changes also occur during the adolescent years; cognitive, self-concept, social / moral reasoning and the ability to think abstractly.One factor of the process ... prepare the adolescent for adult hood and for the person to mature.Another factor of adolescence is self-concept. Self-concept is a persons own view of themselves. This factor is extremely important t ...

(2 pages) 77 0 3.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Helping Others Improve Their Self Image

r image is of an "ideal self", and what we feel we deserve from others,are all part of what we call self-concept. Self-concept is a mental picture of your self, a collection of beliefs about someone's ... of beliefs about someone's own nature, unique qualities of yourself and typical behaviors. We gain self-concept feedback in many ways including, the level of control we are allowed to have over other ...

(4 pages) 47 0 4.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Bibliotherapy: Building Self-esteem in Children and Adolescents

d victimization, among other things. It has also been used to help adolescents by developing a good self-concept in the face of crisis identity.It is believed that the therapeutic benefit of stories a ... must learn to work on self esteem along with reading due to the fact that the two go hand in hand. Self-concept is also very closely correlated with math achievements. Students with higher scores in ...

(6 pages) 57 0 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

The Elusive Nature of Logic and Perception: A Tale of Infidelity - Perceptual Blocks

s have happened? Why didn't I see it coming? What did I do to deserve it? Personal barriers such as self-concept, selective abstraction, and denial stood in my way of logically assessing the situation ... y from home, with a great boyfriend and exciting job. I was living in a rose-colored fantasy due to self-concept. The way that I viewed myself was that I had it all in place. I had my perfect friends, ...

(3 pages) 53 0 3.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Psychology of Human Nature

. Psychologists call a person's self concepts it includes what a person perceives from the person's self-concept attitudes. It's related to Psyche means the integrate part of human mind motion connect ...

(12 pages) 331 0 4.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Social Psychology, what is it and what can it help us learn about ourselves and others actions.

of the factors that I found most interesting as a person, mother and a grandmother was the idea of self-concept and self-awareness. Self-concept is multi-dimensional, it includes knowledge of who we ... t is multi-dimensional, it includes knowledge of who we are, how we impact the world around us. Our self-concept can effect how we behave in regards to a task. A positive self-concept can help us to b ...

(13 pages) 249 1 3.5 Feb/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

The media's effect one women's body image

Body image is an essential part of our self-concept and identity. It influences our thoughts, feelings, behaviors and future goals. Negativ ...

(6 pages) 182 0 5.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media