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Self-concept and Self-image are both pertaining to oneself or how different individuals view their self and a

picture of their self in their mind. Self -concept specifically pertains to persons set of abilities personality and
some unique traits and characteristics. An example of this is like how a person perceive her/his own picture in
mind versus how others have different point of view of that person. Self-concept affect how we express
ourselves and how we present ourselves in times whenever we interact with certain people like our friends,
family, classmates, co-worker and to some random people. Sometimes our decision in life is also based concept
we made to ourselves; therefore, we have ambition or dreams because we perceive ourselves in that position.
An example of this we perceive ourselves as a person that love arts so as a results, we ended up getting an art
degree in college. Self-concept is an image we portrait are self. While on the other hand self-image is the idea of
the person’s ability, character and a picture of self that is embedded in that person’s mind it is build overtime or
affected by society because this is how you feel about yourself like your performance, appearance, and
interaction with people or relationship that can impact your views about life. An example is might be you
exercise to get fit because you don’t want to look fat or studying to increase academic performance, self-image
is how do we want to view ourselves.

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