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This article focuses on the “me” that will be referred to interchangeably as either the “self” or “identity.” We define the self as a multifaceted, dynamic, and temporally continuous set of mental self-representations.
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- Personality Development
- Positive Regard and Self Worth
- Congruence & Incongruence
- Self Actualization
- The Fully Functioning Person
Central to Rogers’ personality theory is the notion of self or self-concept. This is “the organized, consistent set of perceptions and beliefs about oneself.” Carl Rogers’ self-concept is a central theme in his humanistic theory of psychology. It encompasses an individual’s self-image (how they see themselves), self-esteem (how much value they plac...
Carl Rogers (1951) viewed the child as having two basic needs: positive regard from other people and self-worth. How we think about ourselves and our feelings of self-worth are of fundamental importance to psychological health and the likelihood that we can achieve goals and ambitions in life and self-actualization. Self-worth may be seen as a cont...
A person’s ideal self may not be consistent with what actually happens in life and the experiences of the person. Hence, a difference may exist between a person’s ideal self and actual experience. This is called incongruence. Where a person’s ideal self and actual experience are consistent or very similar, a state of congruence exists. Rarely, if e...
Rogers rejected the deterministic nature of both psychoanalysisand behaviorism and maintained that we behave as we do because of the way we perceive our situation. “As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.” Carl Rogers (1959) believed that humans have one basic motive, which is the tendency to self-actualize– i...
Rogers believed that every person could achieve their goal. This means that the person is in touch with the here and now, his or her subjective experiences and feelings, continually growing and changing. In many ways, Rogers regarded the fully functioning person as an ideal and one that people do not ultimately achieve. It is wrong to think of this...
Jul 3, 2017 · In this paper, we introduce the concept of the true self and identify features that distinguish people’s understanding of the true self from their understanding of the self more generally. In particular, we consider recent findings that the true self is perceived as positive and moral and that this tendency is actor-observer invariant and ...
- Nina Strohminger, Joshua Knobe, George Newman
- 2017
Jan 1, 2012 · Here, we have the first clear inkling of a multiple self. These different modes of the self, “appear, one after another and side-by-side in the consciousness.” The sense of a unified self is, therefore, “a fabricated illusion.”
- David Lester
- 2012
Jan 1, 2012 · Self and identity are predicted to influence what people are motivated to do, how they think and make sense of themselves and others, the actions they take, their feelings and ability to
Aug 7, 2020 · The key to understanding self-identity is identifying the transcendental structures that make a temporally extended, continuous, and unified experiential life possible. Self-identity is rooted in the formal, temporalizing structure of intentional experience that underlies psychological continuity.
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Converging these three key concepts reveals the source of the basic subjectivity of self: the self is ontologically situated and embedded within the world (i.e., “being in the world”; Gallagher & Daly, 2018, p. 3, footnote 3; Heidegger, 1927/2008) through what is often described as a “point of view” (Nagel, 1974).
