My Self Concept Examples

Who am I? I am Katelyn Forrest and I am twenty-two years old. I was born and raised in Omaha, Ne. Some of my characteristics that I have is helpful, friendly, dedicated, and truthful. Taekwondo and softball are one of my favorite hobbies or sports to play. I started off with the question “Who am I?” because this paper is about my self-concept. Within this paper, I will use the following concepts to describe my self-concept: social comparison, looking-glass self, self-esteem, self-discrepancy theory, and face. In the book Reflect and Relate: introduction to interpersonal communication by Steven McCornack defined social comparison as, “Observing and assigning meaning to others’ behavior and then comparing it with ours” (McCornack, 2016, p. 38). Social comparison relates to my self-concept because I will compare another person’s behavior with my own behavior weather, it is my role model or someone who is being deviant. An example of social comparison within my life, would be me comparing my work ethic with one of my co-workers work ethic. By comparing my work ethic with

In our text book it defines, the concept looking-glass self as, “The idea of defining our self-concept through what other’s think or see about us” (McCornack, 2016). Looking-glass self can be both positive and negative on my self-concept. An example of a positive looking-glass self is a person who sees me as intelligent and sophisticated, who can do anything I want to be. An example would be one of my role models, who is an Omaha police officer, sees me as becoming a law enforcement officer in the future. This first example, I compared what she believes and sees out of me to what I want to become which matches each other’s views. An example that would be negative is a person who sees me as too tiny and small to play softball. In my view, I believe I can play softball and it does not matter what my size