Rogers' concepts of self and congruence

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Self-worth

  • What we think and feel about ourselves

  • He believed that they developed in early childhood from interactions between the child and their parents

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Self-image

How we see ourselves (critical to psychological health)

  • Both physically and mentally

  • We often view ourselves as good/bad, beautiful/ugly, etc

  • Significant influence on how we think, feel, and behave

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Ideal self

The person we would like to be

  • Consists of our goals and ambitions

  • Dynamic - changes from time to time - child ideal self is not the same as the adult ideal self etc.

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Congruence

Similarity/overlap between a person’s ideal self and their self-image

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Incongruence

When there’s a mismatch between someone’s ideal self and their self-image.

Could be caused by either an incorrect ideal self or self-image.