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Impact Of Self Concept, Body Dissatisfaction And Gender On Student's Fear Of Negative Evaluation
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This dynamic conceptualisation allowed for the observation that an
individual’s self-concept could alter based on their currently
accessible thoughts, attitudes and beliefs, which may be influenced by
factors such as their current motivational state or social surroundings
(Markus &Wurf, 1987). Selfconcept can be conceptualized in terms of
both content and structure, that is how the person views themselves and
how this self-relevant information is organized. Social cognitive
researchers have found out that people vary in the stability of their
self-concept (Campbell et al, 1996), and propose that an unstable
self-concept results in sensitivity and susceptibility to selfrelevant
feedback (Campbell,1990). Psychologist, Carl Rogers (1951), was the
first to establish the notion of self-concept. According to Rogers,
everyone strives to reach an ‘’ideal self’’ (the closer one is to their
ideal self, the happier one will be) Those who are unable to attain this
goal may exhibit the fear of being negatively evaluated by others and
most times they tend to avoid socially evaluative situations. Rogers
claims that one factor in a person’s happiness is the “Unconditional
Positive Regard (UPR) from others. UPR often occur in close of familial
relationship, and involves a consistent level of attention regardless of
the recipient emotion. According to Rogers, psychologically healthy
people actively move away from roles created by others expectations and
instead look within themselves for validation. On the other hand
neurotic people have self-concept that do not match 4 their own
experiences. They are afraid to accept their own experiences as valid,
so they distort them, either to protect themselves or to win approval
from others. One important theory related to self-concept is
self-categorization theory (SCT), which states that self-concept consist
of at least two levels, a personal identity and a social identity. In
other words ones self-evaluation rely on both self-perception and how
others perceive them. If one perceives oneself as being incompetent,
this negative self-evaluation would affect the person’s behaviour or
disposition probably negatively in the same hand, positive
self-evaluation breeds confidence in social situations. The temporary
self-appraisal theory supports the above notion; it posits that people
have a tendency to maintain a positive self-evaluation by distancing
themselves from their negative self and paying more attention to their
positive one. Body image is the perception that a person has of their
physical self and the thoughts and feelings that result from that
perception.
These feelings can be positive, negative or both and are
influenced by individuals and environmental factors According to
National Eating Disorders Collaboration (2014), there are four aspects
of body image;
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