The relatively stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself.
Self-Esteem
Involves evaluations of self-worth.
Personality
Characteristic ways that you think and behave across a variety of situations.
Reflected Appraisal
The fact that each of us develops a self-concept that reflects the way we believe others see us.
Significant others
People whose opinions we especially value.
Social Comparison
Evaluating ourselves in terms of how we compare with others.
Reference Groups
Against which we compare ourselves play an important role in shaping our view of ourselves.
Cognitive Conservatism
Tendency to seek and attend to information that conforms to an existing self-concept
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Occurs when a person's expectations of an event, and his or her subsequent behavior based on those expectations, make the event more likely to occur than would otherwise have been true.