PSYC 231 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Positive Illusions, Identity Crisis, Homelessness

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 231
• Professor: Michael St.John Condra

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First attributes people listed defined themselves in terms of social groups or categories to which they belonged, such as students, girl, husband , etc. , only later get into more idiosyncratic ( ) trait terms like happy, bored, good friend , etc. Members of religious minorities were more likely to mention religious affiliation as an aspect of their self-concept than religious majorities. Our self-concepts are defined by the social world: how we are similar to others and how we are unique compared to others. We are constantly discovering, creating, defining, and maintaining who we are emphasizing either our connections or our uniqueness and how we feel about ourselves through our interactions with the social world. In this chapter, we will explore these three aspects of the self: how we define or think about ourselves (self-concepts, how we evaluate or think of ourselves (self-esteem, what we show to others (social identity)