Self-Esteem
An integrated self-concept is one that you have made for yourself.
What is an integrated self-concept?
The integration of the self and its freedom from contradictions.
What is stability?
What does stability depend on?
Don’t jump to conclusions or blame others; give others the benefit of the doubt; avoid personalizing the situation.- Are examples of this.
In what ways can you avoid focusing on the negative?
These are patterns of negative thinking that make events seem worse than they are.
What are cognitive distortions?
Children need to develop a sense of being loved and being able to give love and to accomplish their goals.
Importance of a positive self-concept beginning in childhood.
People who have received mixed messages about themselves from parents and friends may have contradictory self-images, which defy integration and make them vulnerable to this.
How can people have shifting levels of self-esteem?
This is to avoid focusing on the negative.
What is a method of fighting demoralization?
A method of this is to develop realistic self-talk.
What is a method of fighting demoralization?
Children may fail to develop feelings of self-worth. They may grow to have a negative concept of themselves.
What may happen if children feel rejected or neglected by their parents?
All the components of our self-concept profoundly influence our interpersonal relationships.
Why are the concepts we have about ourselves and others an important part of our personalities?
This is to develop a lasting negative self-concept in which you feel bad, unloved, and ineffective – to become demoralized.
What is the worst approach to reacting to challenges?
This is the statements you make to yourself inside your own mind.
What is self-talk?
Regarding your self, which includes all aspects of your identity, as good, competent, and worthy of love.
What is a healthy self esteem?
These kinds of people tend to use all-or-nothing thinking. They overgeneralize from negative events. They overlook the positive and jump to negative conclusions.
What kind of thinking do demoralized people use?
Acknowledge that something has gone wrong and try again, adjusting your goals to your abilities without radically revising your self-concept is this.
What is the best approach to reacting to challenges?
You try to make your thoughts as logical and accurate as possible, based on the facts of the situation as you know them. Is an approach to this.
What is an approach to controlling your reactions?
Personality characteristics and mannerisms of parents, which children may adopt without realizing it.
What are important building blocks of self-concept?
This is denying that anything went wrong and blaming someone else.
What are less productive reactions to challenges?
This is to recognize and test the negative thoughts and assumptions you may have about yourself and others.
What is one method for fighting demoralization?
Focusing on negatives, expecting the worst, overgeneralizing, minimizing, blaming others, expecting perfection, believing you’re the cause of everything, thinking in black and white, and magnifying events. Are examples of this.
What are types of cognitive distortions?