Social Psychology: Bringing It All Together

Social Psychology: Bringing It All Together

1. Discovering the Self - How Do We Perceive Ourselves and Our Interactions with Others?

Self-concept can be explained as the idea or image that a child develops about himself. In other words, self-concept is a set of physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and psychological characteristics that affect forming a subject image of him. 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. In social context, Self-concept is an aspect of children personality that is essential for good relationship with self as well as others in order to enjoy a good mental health. It can be seen in a society that self-concept is built from childhood when a child is dependent on others for living. Although, they are accepted unconditionally by them in normal situations, this is partly unconditional because their behavior and trends are fixed in a family learning process which builds their training aspect and ideal values of consciousness. While a healthy upbringing for this is obviously necessary, are also in the process of raising personal opinions of our parents or family and educational environment are accompanied with such learning and producing in us the need to assimilate them in order to be accepted by others, so the introvert as part of our personality, without possibly be a real need for our future and for our aspirations and are incompatible with our trends derived from our temperament (Vescio, 2010).

Psychological 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 who do not make their lives easier and facilitate our interpersonal and intergroup relations:

Know helps us to decide what and how we think and what we have to do in each situation.

Knowing about how are the rest of us will predict what those other people think and do.

Knowing how they are, what to think and what to do groups of which we are part is also important.

The self is a set of beliefs and feelings that we have about ourselves and a characteristic way of responding to environmental stimuli. It is the image that I have of myself but always through others (the image others have of me). The concept is a psychological concept that has a social origin and affects a wide range of social behaviors. The self has as one of its premises consciousness of oneself as a being distinct from each other and the environment, i.e. self-consciousness. Self-esteem is the personal assessment in the various fields of social and personal relationship. The assessment and self-assessment of qualities and skills result in a positive or negative ...