Society

Normal functional self concept patterns

The mental image of one’s self comprises body image, self esteem, personal identity and role performance. The instant of the woman who delivered a baby the baby clarifies these components her body image, self esteem, personal identity, and role performance changed with pregnancy and delivery. Her ideal self changed, but ,because her self concept was health, she can evaluate and make necessary changes, she can cope and adapt to the dynamics of self concept.

Positive body image

The human body is the physical manifestations of self in the real world. How one pictures one’s body and how one feels about one’s body describes body image. it is the unifying concept behind feelings about one’s size, sex and sexuality, the way one looks the way one’s body function , and whether one’s body can help one accomplish goals. Sexual satisfaction is positively correlated with positive body image {berscheid etal 1873}.

Body image is influenced by culture and social experience. Each person hhas a picture of how he or she hopes he or she might look, an idealized body image. Additionally, each person has an awareness of how he or she really looks, a mirrored image. When the real image is close to the ideal image, the person experience positive regard to self. These positive feelings about body image are part of self esteem.

Self esteem

Is the judgment that one makes regarding one’s self. It is the result of self evaluation of worth. stanwyek dethe fined self esteem as “how I feel about I see myself”. Two sources for esteem are self and others {hip}. Self esteem develops throughout childhood and adolescence, to become more stable in adulthood.

[pic]Fig. HIPL self esteem develops when there is positive feedback from both self and others

Early in life, the child accepts the parents evaluation as his or her own. Then the child incorporates others’ appraisals and expectations to form a self ideal, and then slowly begins self evaluation....