Outline how factors can influence the development of individual's self concept.
I am going to outline how factors can influence the development of individual's self-concept, firstly, I will to define what is self-concept.
Self-concept self concept is about the way we view ourselves. There are two sides of our self concept and these include: our self-esteem, which is how we feel about out selves that is the the worth and value that you as a person attribute to yourself, and self-image, which is how we see ourselves for example in terms of gender, skin colour, heigh and weight.
Below are the factors:
• age appearance culture emotional development education abuse family income media environment
From the above I will outline how four of the factors can influence the development of individual's self-concept.
Income
Income can influence the development of individual's self-concept in a negative and positive way whereby people with good income with be able to live a luxurious life-style, for example will be able to afford good healthy balance diet, expensive cloths, shoes and jewellery able to afford good expensive accommodations with nice furniture, expensive cars, private hospitals, can afford their children to go to private schools which will them the advantage to good education and will be able to reach their full potential in life; can afford to go on holidays. But most importantly, possessions are not the only important thing in life, as long as one is able to maintain basic standard of living. on the other people with low income will even find it difficult to maintain the basic needs of life and this will their self-esteem especially if they are surrounding by images of people who have a lot of wealth. They will be restricted from a lot of things for example, will not be able to afford nice cloths for them and their children, will not be able to afford nice secured accommodation, not be able to access higher education and