TCH 210 Lecture 19: Views of Self
5 Dec 2018
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Attachment: attachment figures are particularly powerful in shaping children"s self-concepts, secure: children tend to have positive self-concepts, feel valued and capable, ambivalent kids: parents are inconsistently available or critical tend to have low self- concepts. Try to please parents but rarely succeed: avoidant: express self-sufficiency, believe they do not need others. Try to earn parental regard through high achievement in school, sports, etc. Defend their self-esteem by becoming workaholics, perfectionists: disorganized: defend their self-esteem by being overly anxious to please others. They derive their worth by being people pleasers. Competence: learners" actual accomplishments influence their self-concept. If they have proven to be good at something they tend to have high self-concept. Big-fish-little-pond: students with the same abilities tend to have higher academic self-concept in schools with low-average achievement.
