Self awareness also presents with at least three other self-schema: the actual, ideal, and ought self.

Self awareness may be positive or negative depending on the circumstances and our next course of
action. Self awareness can keep you from doing something dangerous; it can help remind you there is an
exam tomorrow in one of your subjects when you are about to spend time playing computer games with
your cousins, among others.

In other instances, self awareness can be too much that we are concerned about being observed and
critized by others, also known as self consciousness. ( Jhangiani and Tarry 2014). At other times,
espicially with large crowds, we may experience deindividuation or “the loss of individual self awareness
and individual accountability in groups” (Festinger, Pepitone, and Newcomb 1952; Zimbardo 1969 in
Jhangiani and Tarry 2014).

Our group identity and self awareness also has a great impact on our self esteem, one of the common
concepts associated with the “self”.

One of the ways in which our social relationship affects our self-esteem is through social comparison.

The two types of social comparison are the downward social comparison and upward social comparison.

Social comparison also entails what is called self evaluation maintenance theory, which states that we
can feel threatened when someone out-performs us, especially when that person is close to us.

Narcissicm is a “trait characterized by overly high self esteem, self admiration, and self centeredness”

Sometimes, there is a thin line between high self esteem and narcissism and there are a lot of tests and
measurements for self esteem like Rosenbeeg scale but the issue is that the result can be affected by
the desire of the person to portray herself in a positive or advantageous way.

People with high self esteem are commonly described as outgoing, adventurous and adaptable in a lot
of situations. However, they may also dismiss other activities that do not conform to their self concept
or boost their self esteem.

This duality in the behavior and attitudes only proves the above-mentioned correlation.