The Self

Social Psychology

Self Concept

Is the set of beliefs that people have about their personal attributes.

Impression management

The attempt people make to have people see them as they want to be seen.

Behavioural-self handicapping

People act in a certain way which reduces the likely hold they’ll succeed in a task so when they fail they can blame it in the obstacles.

Reported self-handicapping

rather than creating obstacles to success, they have ready-made access for failure.

Self-esteem

Refers to people’s evaluation of self-worth.