Development of Self-Concept

Development of Self-Concept

Introduction

Today in many countries an increase can be observed in the rate of mental health indicators that can be attributed to different causes of biological, social, environmental or psychological factors.

In fact, these factors have a noticeable influence on the development of self-concept in children, which is developed and evolves at different stages of life (Harwood et al., 2008). It is important to know that self-knowledge is the understanding of self and goals or skills associated with it.

To achieve this understanding, it is also essential to organize the information about self-concept that is formed by a large number of self-schemas children use as resources. In order to understand the impact of said factors on children's self-concept, it is vital to understand self-concept and its utility (Mash & Wolfe, 2010).

Discussion

Self-Concept can be explained as the idea or image that a child develops about him or herself. In other words, self-concept is a set of physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and psychological characteristics that a person has about himself.

This concept does not remain static throughout life, but is developing and building through the intervention of cognitive factors and social interaction throughout the development (Mash & Wolfe, 2010).

No one can deny the fact that it is necessary to understand the concept of the self as part of the progress of the capacity and ability to relate to and recognize others as well. Competencies that children creatively and flexibly use in different contexts through their performance and everyday behavior is vital for contributing towards self-concept and also makes way for progress on their part.

Psychological Factors

These factors focus on the content of identity itself. They focus on individual differences and how these differences lead people to behave in a certain way (Brannon & Feist, 2010).

In fact, the most important thing to understand is the awareness of their identity. In addition, it is equally important to understand the awareness about other groups to which a child belongs to and those that are alien to the child. Both of these facilitate our interpersonal and intergroup relations (Mash & Wolfe, 2010). Considering psychological and cognitive patterns are intertwined, there are three (3) factors related and associated with a child's association and his or her self-concept:

It helps us decide what and how we think and what we have to do in each situation;

It provides us the whereabouts of how are the rest of us will predict what those other people think and do; and

Being in a position to understand how other people are in our environment, what we wish to conceive through brain processes and how we tend to move about in clusters of people.

The attitude to a person's personality appears on the basis of experiences included in the rational aspects of consciousness. A variety of feelings and emotional states at different times or circumstances with regard to thinking about yourself, understanding yourself, etc. are all constituents and components of developing and contributing in the area of self-concept and its ...