Professional Documents
Culture Documents
BY:
DR.AZLINA BINTI MOHD KHIR
• Physical characteristics
• Demographic qualities
• Membership and roles in groups
• Traits and core belief
• Interest/hobby and activities
SOURCES OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE
Types of self
Sources of Social mirror
self-
knowledge Social comparison
Labelling
Self-perception
1. Self-recognition
• Have you looked at yourself in the
mirror and then accept yourself as it
is / who you are?
• By accepting who you are based on
what you know about yourself.
• To accept/recognize yourself
(sincerely), then you know who you
are.
• If we are stupid, accept that we are
stupid!!! Only then do we know that
we are stupid...
• Have you ever heard a story of a dog
and its reflection?
2. Types of self
• It is related to reflected
• Label given is normally
evaluation/appraisal.
acceptedby the person,
and this lead him/her to
behave as labelled.
(self-fulfilling prophecy)
6. Self-perception
• We know our self through our
observation of our own self.