Description
Objective:
- Define self-concept, self-awareness and self-esteem, how they are related, and explain the ways in which self-awareness and self-esteem may be increased.
- Define perception and its stages, and explain how to increase perceptual accuracy.
Instructions:
- Review concepts related to self-awareness, including The Four Selves, that you explored in the textbook and in the learning activities.
- Consider the fact that an individual's self-awareness combined with an individual's perception of a situation often varies and differences in both can influence how a communication interaction transpires.
- Reflect on a time when you encountered different perceptions of an event or interaction.
- Address differences in your understanding of yourself in relation to another's understanding of yourself.
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Self-Awareness
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Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is being aware of distinct aspects of the individual including feelings,
behaviors, and traits. It is a mental state where one becomes the emphasis of attention. Selfawareness is a component of the self-concept. It is a concept that is central to whom a person is,
not something that one can acutely focus on at every moment of every day (Carver, C. S. (2012).
It is woven into the fabric of who one is and emerges at different points depending on the
personality and the situation.
Self-awareness is the capability to focus on self and how one’s actions, emotions, or
thoughts align or fail to align with one’s internal principles. Highly self-aware people can
accurately assess themselves, manage their emotions, understand how to perceive others and how
to align one's behavior with own values (Kobayashi, 2010). Self-awareness helps one to know
how other people view them, creating authentic and stronger rel...
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