1. INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION Unit 3 Seminar Self-concept and communication

2. SELF CONCEPT
The relatively stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself.
SELF ESTEEM
The part of the self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth.

3. Self-concept
Values – refers to your relatively permanent ideas of what is good or bad, worthwhile or not.
Beliefs – what you think is true based on logic.
Attitudes – refer to more specific application of your values. How you act.
Feeling – emotional responses to things such as events, people, places or situations

4. Public Public-private Private
Self-disclosure
This is the process of sharing personal information or feelings with others. This process is often difficult.
This process can take place in three settings.
Public Public-private Private
Factors that influence self-disclosure include
1. The place
2. The person or group

5. Communication behavior
People change their communication in direct response to the situation, place and people.
Situation – with the Dean, in trouble
Place – in class, after school, at Mass,
People – teachers, parents, friends

6. For discussion
What do you remember being told as a child that still influences your behavior today in a negative way? In a positive way?

7. BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL ROOTS OF THE SELF
Biology
1. Personality
Socialization
1. Reflected Appraisal
Significant Others
2. Social Comparison
Reference Groups

8. CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF-CONCEPT
The self-concept is subjective.
Obsolete information
Distorted feedback
Myth of perfection
Social expectations
The self-concept resists change.
Cognitive conservatism

9. INFLUENCES ON IDENTITY
Culture
Sex and Gender

10. For discussion
How are your identity and social views defined, sustained, and reinforced by the cultures within which you immerse your life?

11. SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY
Occurs when a person’s expectations of an event and her/his subsequent behavior based on those expectations make the outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise have been true.
Two types: self-imposed
others-imposed

12. Changing your self-concept
Have a realistic perception of yourself.
Have realistic expectations.
Have the will to change.
Have the skill to change.

13. IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
The communication strategies people use to influence how others view them.
PERCEIVED SELF: the person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest self-examination
PRESENTING SELF: the way we want others to view us

14. For discussion
What is a strong value, belief, or attitude you have that you learned from your family while growing up?

15. CHARACTERISTICS OF
IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
We strive to construct multiple identities.
Identity management is collaborative.
Identity management can be deliberate or unconscious.
Identity management varies by situation.
People differ in their degree of identity management.

16. For discussion
How might you benefit from changing your self-concept?

17. HOW DO WE MANAGE IMPRESSIONS?
WHY MANAGE IDENTITIES?
To start & manage relationships; adhere to social rules
To gain compliance of others; accomplish personal goals
To save others’ face
HOW DO WE MANAGE IMPRESSIONS?
Face-to-face: manner, appearance, setting
Mediated: choices to include and exclude

18. For discussion
What are some general world views that you hold? Where did you learn them?