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Self-Concept vs. Self-Esteem: Career Management

Self-concept refers to a person's knowledge about themselves, including their personality, abilities, and temperament. It is developed through self-reflection. Self-esteem refers to one's overall attitude or evaluation of self-worth, which can be positive or negative. High self-esteem is associated with confidence and optimism, while low self-esteem involves lack of confidence and worrying what others think. The key difference between the two is that self-concept is factual knowledge about the self, while self-esteem involves feelings about the self. However, they are also similar as both involve reflective processes that can be influenced by others' reactions and comparisons to peers.

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Self-Concept vs. Self-Esteem: Career Management

Self-concept refers to a person's knowledge about themselves, including their personality, abilities, and temperament. It is developed through self-reflection. Self-esteem refers to one's overall attitude or evaluation of self-worth, which can be positive or negative. High self-esteem is associated with confidence and optimism, while low self-esteem involves lack of confidence and worrying what others think. The key difference between the two is that self-concept is factual knowledge about the self, while self-esteem involves feelings about the self. However, they are also similar as both involve reflective processes that can be influenced by others' reactions and comparisons to peers.

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Career Management

SELF-CONCEPT VS. SELF-ESTEEM


What is Self-Concept?
A person's self-concept is his knowledge about himself. “Who am I?”
Similar to how he can know other people, and know facts about how they tend to think, and what they enjoy
doing, and what their temperament is like, he can also know these things about himself. Some people have much
stronger self-concepts than others, probably because possessing a self-concept in much detail requires reflection
on one's own self and behavior.

What is Self-Esteem?
Self-esteem, rather than being something that you know about yourself, is your general attitude toward yourself.
Self-esteem refers to the extent to which we like accept or approve of ourselves or how much we value ourselves.
Self esteem always involves a degree of evaluation and we may have either a positive or negative view of
ourselves. This can vary depending on the situation and what have been going on lately, and any feedback you
have gotten recently from your environment and people around you.

High self-esteem, were we have a positive view of ourselves, tends to led to:
 Confidence in our own abilities
 Self acceptance
 Not worrying about what others think
 Optimism

Low self esteem, where we have a negative view of ourselves, tends to led to
 Lack of confidence
 A wish to be/look like someone else
 Always worrying what others may think
 Pessimism

Key Difference between Self-Concept and Self-Esteem


The key difference between self-concept and self-esteem is that the addition of feelings. Self-concept is simply the
informational side of things, where you know facts about what you are like. Self-esteem is how you feel about
those things you know, like whether you enjoy the fact that you are talkative at parties (high self-esteem) or you
think that you are annoying and need to learn to shut up sometimes (low self-esteem). There are a variety of self-
esteem effects that can come from the self-concept.

Similarities between Self-Concept and Self-Esteem


Self-concept and self-esteem also have a lot in common though, mostly that they are reflective processes. They
can be influenced not only by observing one's own self and behavior objectively, but also by observing the
reactions that other people have to you and your behavior, or imagining what other people might think of you, or
what you would think of yourself if you saw yourself from outside.
In addition, self-concept and self-esteem can be developed through comparing oneself to those around you, and
that is a big reason that self-esteem is raised or lowered. When you see that you are better at something than
somebody else, then you will probably have higher self-esteem because you see and understand your own value.

ACTIVITIES: Using this worksheet, students will create a Venn Diagram depicting the two

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