Friday 15 January 2010

Personality and Self-concept

A person’s personality is the visible aspect of their character as they impress others. This is the total of the physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics of an individual.
“Personality is the inner psychological characteristics that both determine and reflects how a person responds to his or her environment”.


The self concept is how we think about and evaluate ourselves; to be aware of oneself is to have a concept of oneself.
Self concept is a general term used to refer to how someone thinks about and perceives themselves. (Basically what you think of yourself. e.g I am awesome, its a fact).

Everyone thinks of themselves differently to what others may think of them and each person views about themselves is different. This could be down to their age, religion, lifestyle etc. for example a young person such as myself or someone younger may think that the world is our oyster and we can do anything we want. However and older person (like my dad) has more experience and now wouldn't think the same as younger people and may tend to be a bit pessimistic about most things.

The reason why someone could have a concept about themselves through religion is because someone who follows a religion or a certain religion may think they are better than others because of it and may big themselves up. (This could also happen if you don't have a religion so be careful guys).

Marketers could use this to their advantage and use people's personalities and self concept to tempt them into buying things. For example someone who things their cool and up to date with today's fashion may buy new products for example super cars and bikes (they need to be super rich to buy these) so they continue to look awesome (like me).


Humans are very obsessed about who we are and what we look like in front of other people which causes us to do some stupid things and funny things. People may think they they have a talent and think there really good at something (some are most are not).
Below are two videos one was a contestant on Britain's Got Talent and the other one is an impressionist. make your minds up on which was actually got talent and which was a complete fool.





This is what happens when we get too overconfident. This was a bad self concept a person has on themselves which went horribly wrong.
These show what could happen if yourself concept on yourself is right or wrong, one person has some great talent and the other makes a complete fool of himself live on T.V. this teaches you to be careful on what you do and not get to full of yourself. (Sadly it still doesn't work)

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