1. COMMUNICATION AND THE SELF3
COMMUNICATION AND THE SELF
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2. What’s To Come Understanding the Self: Self-Concept
Valuing the Self: Self-Esteem
Presenting the Self: Image Management
Communicating the Self: Self-Disclosure

3. Self-Concept
Who are you? Your self-concept reflects your stable ideas about who you are
Your self-concept is your identity

4. Self-Concept Self-concepts are multifaceted
Self-concepts are partly subjective
Self-concepts are enduring but changeable

5. Self-Concept
The Johari Window

6. Self-Concept Many factors affect our self-concept
Personality and biology
Culture and gender roles
Reflected appraisal
Social comparison

7. Self-Concept We manage our self-concepts through self- monitoring
Awareness of how we look, sound, and affect others
Low Self-
Monitor
High Self-
Monitor

8. Self-Concept Self-fulfilling prophecies can reinforce our self-concept
We have expectations based on how we perceive ourselves and others
Our expectations prompt us to act in specific ways
Those actions bring about the outcomes we expected
Our self-concepts are therefore reinforced

9. Self-Esteem
Your self-esteem is your subjective evaluation of your value and worth as a person
Can influence social behavior, how we see ourselves and others, and school and work performance
Affected by culture and sex

10. Self-Esteem
We have three fundamental needs with respect to self-esteem:
Need for control
Need for inclusion
Need for affection

11. Image Management
Image management means adjusting our behavior to project a desired image
Image management is collaborative
We manage multiple identities
Image management is complex

12. Image Management We manage three face needs Fellowship face
Autonomy face
Competence face

13. Self-Disclosure
Self-disclosure is the act of intentionally giving others information about ourselves that we believe to be true but we think they don’t already have

14. Self-Disclosure Self-disclosure is intentional and truthful
Self-disclosure varies in breadth and depth
Self-disclosure varies among relationships
Self-disclosure is a gradual process

15. Self-Disclosure Self-disclosure follows a different pattern online
Self-disclosure is usually reciprocal
Self-disclosure can serve many purposes
Self-disclosure is influenced by cultural and gender roles

16. Self-Disclosure Self-disclosure has benefits
Enhancement of relationships and trust
Reciprocity
Emotional release
Assistance to others

17. Self-Disclosure Self-disclosure has risks Rejection
Chance of obligating others
Hurt to others
Violation of other people’s privacy
Risks of disclosing online