SELF-AWARENESS

AND
SELF-ESTEEM

Dr. Meenakshi Dadhich

WHAT IS SELF AWARENESS?
SELF-AWARENESS
 SELF-AWARENESS

Self-awareness is your ability to perceive

and understand the things that make you who
you are as an individual, including your
personality, actions, values, beliefs,
emotions, and thoughts
 PSYCHOLOGISTS SHELLEY DUVAL AND
ROBERT WICKLUND PROPOSED THIS
DEFINITION:

 "Self-awareness is the ability to focus on yourself

and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or
don't align with your internal standards. If you're
highly self-aware, you can objectively evaluate
yourself, manage your emotions, align your
behavior with your values, and understand
correctly how others perceive you."
 KEY AREAS OF SELF-AWARENESS

To become more self-aware, we should develop an understanding

of ourselves in 5 key areas:
1. Personality traits
2. Personal values
3. Habits
4. Needs
5. Emotions
1. PERSONALITY -We normally don’t change our
personalities based on what we learn about ourselves.
 Understanding our personalities can help us:

 Find situations in which we’ll thrive

 Help us avoid stressful situations

2. Values- When we focus on our values, we are likely to

accomplish what we find most important
 3. Habits- We would all like to possess the habits that help our relationships with
others.
 The truth is that we all have habits that decrease our relationship effectiveness
 • Understanding these habits can help our relationships with our managers and
our co-workers
 4.Needs- • We all have needs that govern our choices, but we must be careful not
to attribute the label “need” to our “wants” • Figuring out the difference between
what we need and what we want can change the way we behave • Understanding
our needs can improve our daily lives and interactions with others
 5.Emotions-Everyone has emotions • Emotions can be tricky • Regulating
emotional responses is important • The human condition prompts immediate
emotional responses • The key to regulating emotions is to understand your own
and practice self-mediation
 TYPES OF SELF-AWARENESS

Psychologists often break self-

awareness down into two different
types

1. Public self-awareness
2. Private self-awareness
 PUBLIC SELF-AWARENESS

 This type emerges when people are

aware of how they appear to others.
Public self-awareness often emerges in
situations when people are at the
center of attention.
 When we are aware that we are being
watched and evaluated, we often try to
behave in ways that are socially
acceptable and desirable.
 Public self-awareness can also lead to
evaluation anxiety in which people
become distressed, anxious, or worried
about how they are perceived by
others.
PRIVATE SELF-AWARENESS

 This type happens when people become

aware of some aspects of themselves,
but only in a private way. For
example, seeing your face in the
mirror is a type of private self-
awareness.
 BENEFITS OF SELF-AWARENESS

• It gives us the power to influence outcomes

• It helps us to become better decision-makers It
gives us more self-confidence — so, as a result, we
communicate with clarity and intention
• It allows us to understand things from multiple
perspectives
• It frees us from our assumptions and biases
• It helps us build better relationships
• t gives us a greater ability to regulate our emotions
• It decreases stress
• It makes us happier
FACILITATING SELF-AWARENESS THROUGH
REFLECTIVE EXERCISES

 What is reflective practice?

 An ongoing, dynamic process of thinking

honestly, deeply and critically about all aspects of
professional practice with children and families
 It occurs spontaneously as well as in essential
planned reflection time
 Reflective practice leads to action
FACILITATING SELF-AWARENESS THROUGH
REFLECTIVE EXERCISES

• critically assess your own knowledge, values,

qualities, skills and behaviours
• reflect on your experiences and learn from them to
inform and guide your own personal and
professional development
• clearly recognise your own strengths and
weaknesses
• be confident in articulating your skills and abilities to
others
• see yourself as others see you
WHAT IS SELF ESTEEM?

 Self Esteem is
 how we value our self
 how we peruse our value to the world
 how valuable we think we are to others
 WHAT IS SELF ESTEEM?

 Self-esteem refers to how you feel about

yourself overall; how much esteem, positive
regard or self-love you have. Self-esteem
develops from experiences and situations that
have shaped how you view yourself today
  The term self-esteem was first coined by William
James in 1890, which makes it one of the oldest
concepts in psychology
 The "esteem" part of self-esteem comes from the Latin
verb aestimare, meaning to value. The "self" part is self-explanatory,
referring to you, yourself. So think of self-esteem as how you value
yourself. If you think everything you do is wonderful and deserves
praise, you have no self-esteem problems, but if you feel like you are
not worthy of good things, you may have low self-esteem.
TYPES OF SELF ESTEEM

Low Self Esteem High Self Esteem

 Constant feeling of High Self Esteem

insecurity, are very Generally feel good about
cautious, timid, avoid themselves, are open to new
conflict & suffer with experiences, feel accepted
a lot of anxiety and
and are pleasant to be
depression around
 CAUSES OF LOW SELF-ESTEEM

 Some of the many causes of low self-esteem may

include:
• Unhappy childhood where parents (or other
significant people such as teachers) were extremely
critical
• Poor academic performance in school resulting in a
lack of confidence
• Ongoing stressful life event such as relationship
breakdown or financial trouble
• Poor treatment from a partner, parent or carer, for
example, being in an abusive relationship
• Ongoing medical problem such as chronic pain,
serious illness or physical disability
• Mental illness such as an anxiety disorder or
 VARIOUS FACTORS BELIEVED TO INFLUENCE OUR
SELF-ESTEEM

• Genetics
• Personality
• Life experiences
• Age
• Health
• Thoughts
• Social circumstances
• The reactions of others
• Comparing the self to others
 Hi Vasu, I have low self esteem , what should
I do !!! I don’t know why , but I am starting
to hate everything about me. I don’t want to
be so negative and feel bad about myself
anymore, what should I do ????????

Hello Alia, Why are you feeling so ???

Well Don’t do any thing to bring yourself
down, you are a great person. Just feel good
about yourself. There is nothing you can do
except just love who you are, then you will
learn that nobody is perfect and you will
have lot of good things.
You’ll feel better when you accept who you
are.
TIPS TO IMPROVE SELF ESTEEM
 Gain Control of yourself
 Do not be critical of yourself to others
 Be kind
 Make a list of good qualities and believe on them
 Don’t be a complainer
 Learn to relax
 Allow time for yourself each day (like meditation &
Yoga)
 Boost your own moral
 Read some good motivational books
 Congratulate yourself
Thank You