Self-Understanding

and Assessment
Lesson Plan FCS B1-1

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 Anticipated Problem

1. Why is it important to have a good self-concept, and

how is it achieved?
2. What factors affect the development of self-concept?
3. How do you develop a positive self-concept?
4. How would you describe someone with a high self-
concept?
5. How can leaders increase the self-concept of others?

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 Terms

 Anxiety
 Self-concept
 Attitude
 Self-confidence
 Conceit
 Self-determination
 Desire
 Doubt  Self-esteem
 Fear  Self-image
 Motivation  Self-responsibility
 Resilient
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 Self-Concept

 When your self-concept improves, your personality

and performance improves.
 Self-concept is the act of respecting yourself.

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 Self-Concept

 Self-concept:
 Be aware of both your strengths and your weaknesses
 Believe in yourself and accept yourself
 As your self-concept increases, there will be less and less
that you have to prove to yourself.
 A person with a positive self-concept is pleasant, secure,
and content.

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 Self-Concept

 Having a positive self-concept is the most important

factor toward success.
 By believing in yourself, you will gain the respect of your
peers.
 As a leader, to gain the respect of others, you must first
be able to prove worthiness to yourself.

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A positive self-concept has rewards.

 More confidence
 Trust in ideas, skills, knowledge
 The ability to capitalize on opportunities
 Using mistakes as a learning experience
 Being a more dynamic and interesting person
 Becoming more focused on bigger goals

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A positive self-concept has rewards.

 Being more emotionally secure

 The ability to control your personal future by
creating circumstances instead of following
circumstances
 The ability to cope with success
 A positive feeling for others
 Being able to handle challenges

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 Self-Concept and Conceit

 There is a difference between self-concept and

conceit. Conceit is the excessive feeling of one’s
own worth.
 The primary difference is the excess in conceit
 Boastful and arrogant
 A person with a positive self-concept does not brag
or voice his or her own personal self-satisfaction of
his or her worth.
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 Positive Self-Concept

 The ingredients of a positive self-concept include:

 Self-esteem
 Self-image
 Self-confidence
 Self-determination
 Self-responsibility

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 Positive Self-Concept

 Self-esteem is your feeling as to how you feel about

yourself. It is how you accept yourself and perceive
your worth as a person.

 Self-image relates to self-acceptance and presenting

yourself in a confident manner.

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 Positive Self-Concept

 Self-confidence is being secure with your abilities

and the opportunity to face new challenges.

 Self-determination involves motivation from within.

 Motivation is the energy that allows you to meet new
challenges. To be self-determined is to be in charge of
your fate.

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 Positive Self-Concept

 Self-responsibility is the ability to accept

consequences for any effort, good, bad, or other.
 To be self-responsible, you must be resilient, or have
the ability to bounce back.

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 Development of Self-Concept

 There are three types of factors that affect the

development of self-concept:
 Chronological
 External
 Internal

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 Chronological Development

 Chronological development of self-concept can be

divided into three segments:
 Childhood
 Adolescence
 Adult

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 Chronological Development

 The self-concept formed in childhood lays the

foundation for your attitudes toward work, future
success, and abilities.
 Adolescent development involves comparing
yourself to others as you mature.
 When you reach adulthood, your self-concept has
been formed by past experiences.

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 External Factors

 External factors affecting self-concept include:

 Family
 Relationships
 School
 Work
 Social activities

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 External Factors

 The home environment plays an important role in

the development of a person.
 Contacts outside of family provide a network of past,
present, and future relationships.
 School is where you spend the majority of your time
from age 5–20.
 The world of work provides you with the opportunity
to display self-concept.
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 Internal Factors

 The specific internal factors that affect self-concept

are
 Fear
 Doubt
 Anxiety

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 Internal Factors

 Fear is one of the basic emotions. It is caused by an

overwhelming anticipation or awareness of danger.
 Doubt is the state of questioning your ability to learn,
think creatively, accomplish, and succeed.
 Anxiety is having an uncomfortable feeling or
uneasiness about a solution or event. Sometimes
referred to as “having butterflies.”

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Developing a Positive Self Concept

 There are five areas that will help in developing a

positive self-concept.
1. Restore and nurture a healthy self-concept.
2. Develop a positive desire to change.
3. Create the proper attitude.
4. Establish goals.
5. Take action.

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 Restore and Nurture a
Healthy Self-Concept
 You can only control the future, not the past.
 Examples of how to practice a healthy self concept:
 Accepting limitations
 Making a list of talents
 Making decisions for yourself
 Learning from successful failures
 Finishing every job that is started

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 Develop a Positive Desire
to Change
 Having a genuine desire to change:
 A Desire is a wish or craving for something.

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 Create the Proper Attitude

 Attitude is a state of mind with respect to feelings,

beliefs, or outlook (positive or negative) on an event.
 As the attitude stays positive, desire can be
maintained.
 Be aware of attitudes of those with whom you
associate.
 You determine your own attitude.

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 Establish Goals

 A person must develop a purpose or direction

through the establishment of goals.
 Goals may be short, medium, or long term.
 Define the goals: be realistic, make an agenda, be
open to adjustments, reward when finished

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 Take Action

 Without action, all you have are good intentions.

 Sometimes the hardest step to achieve because it
requires both physical and mental energy.
 When you take action you become vulnerable to
both external and internal factors that affect self-
concept.

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 Describing Someone with a
Positive Self-Concept
 A positive orientation: no worrying over past failures
 Copes well with life’s problems
 Deals with emotions – doesn’t affect their actions
 Helps others and accepts help for themselves
 Accepts people as unique individuals
 Exhibits a variety of self-confident behaviors

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 Presenting a Positive Self-
Concept
 Smile, have a neat appearance and attire
 Be polite and considerate of others
 Be an active listener
 Take pride in work
 Have independence
 Make the best of every situation, make wise
decisions

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 Presenting a Positive Self-
Concept
 Bright and alert eyes
 Relaxed face and natural color
 Holding the chin high
 Relaxed jaw and erect shoulders
 Relaxed and graceful hand movements
 Relaxed and balanced posture
 A purposeful walk

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 Increasing the Self-Concept
of Others
 Good leaders bring the best out of other people.
This includes developing a positive self-concept.
 By raising your own self-esteem, you increase the level
of others around you.

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 Increasing the Self-Concept
of Others
 Give people opportunities to practice self-responsibility.
 Praise in public and correct in private.
 Assign tasks slightly beyond their known capabilities.
 View problems as “challenges and opportunities.”
 If you err in dealing with someone, admit it, apologize.
 Support the talented non-team player

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 Review/Summary

 Why is it important to have a good self-concept, and

how is it achieved?
 What factors affect the development of self-
concept?
 How do you develop a positive self-concept?

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