PSYC 260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: The Need, Social Comparison Theory, Motivation
23 Feb 2015
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Chapter 5: self-knowledge and the need to maintain self-esteem. Independent view of the self: defining oneself in terms of one"s own internal thoughts, feelings, and actions, and not in terms of the thoughts, feelings, and actions of other people westerners. Japanese have lower self-concept clarity: self-concept clarity was not as strongly linked to self-esteem for the. Japanese as it was for canadians: gender differences in defining the self, women"s self-concept reflect more relational interdependence, they focus more on their close relationships, men tend to define themselves in terms of social groups collective interdependence. Knowing ourselves through social interaction: people can have different selves depending on the situation, seeing ourselves through the eyes of others: the looking-glass. Self: looking-glass self: idea that we see ourselves through the eyes of other people and incorporate their views into our self-concept, who we are is determined a bit by the internal audience we have in mind.
