Move the Body, Change the Self: Acculturative Effects on the Self-Concept

Research highlights the importance of positive self-concept for children and the influence of self-concept on long-term success (Elbaum, 2002; Fong & Yuen, 2009; Rudasill, Capper, Foust, Callahan, Albaugh, 2009), yet studies have rarely focused on the self-perceptions of self-concept of students identified as gifted and with a learning disability (G/LD). Adopting a qualitative case study approach, this study explored how eight post-secondary G/LD students perceived the development of self-concept over time, and how labelling and educational placement influenced those self-perceptions. Data collection included a demographic questionnaire, a Body Biography, and a semi-structured interview that focused on the Body Biography and participants’ self-perceptions of educational placement, labels, social identity, group membership, and self-concept. Guided by the Marsh/Shavelson model of self-concept (1985) and the Social Identity Theory (1986), findings revealed that participants often perceived the gifted and LD components of the G/LD identification as separate entities; that a gifted in-group membership was more often perceived when discussing individual strengths, while an LD in-group membership was perceived when reflecting upon their weaknesses. The findings from this study support the notion that each G/LD student is unique and that identification methods and placement options continue to be a concern with respect to the development of self-concept for G/LD students.

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KONSEP DIRI PENDERITA TB PARU DI RS PKU MUHAMMADIYAH GOMBONG

Jurnal Ilmiah Kesehatan Keperawatan ◽

10.26753/jikk.v12i2.155 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Rina Saraswati ◽

Nur Hasanah ◽

Muhammad Basirun Al Ummah

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Pulmonary Tuberculosis ◽

Personal Identity ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Self Esteem ◽

The Body ◽

The Self ◽

Self Concept ◽

Tuberculosis Patients ◽

Physical Changes

Introduction: The self-concept is all thoughts, beliefs and faiths that make the person know about him and affect his contact with others. Usually self-concept of pulmonary tuberculosis patients is impaired resulting from physical changes such as becoming physically thinner, paler, frequent coughing, body weaknesses and decrease of physical ability. Based on preliminary studies on eight respondents 75% experiencing body image disorder, 75% self-ideal disorder, 100% self-role disorder, 50% self-esteem disorder.The aim of this researrch is to determine self-concept of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in PKU Muhammadiyah Hospital of Gombong.The present study used descriptive quantitative method with survey approach. The total samples were 31 people taken by purposive sampling technique. The data were taken by questionnaires and analyzed using univariate analysis.The frequency distribution based on the self-concept were less (83.9%), mediocre (9.7%), and good category (6.5%). The body image were less (83.9%), mediocre (9.7%), good (6.5%). The self-ideal were less (90.3%), and mediocre category (9.7%). Personal identity were less (58.1%), enough (22.6%), and good category (19.4%). The self-role were less (54.8%), good (25.8%), and mediocre category (19.4%). Self-esteem were less (51.6%), mediocre (32.3%), and good category (16.1%).The largest percentage of the self-concept, body image, self-ideal, personal identity, self-role, and self-esteem of pulmonary tuberculosis patients was less category. Keywords: self-concept, body image, self-ideal, personal identity, self-role, self-esteem, pulmonary tuberculosis patients

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Self-Concept Clarity and the Bodily Self: Malleability Across Modalities

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ◽

10.1177/0146167219879126 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 46 (5) ◽

pp. 808-820

Author(s):

Sonia A. Krol ◽

Rémi Thériault ◽

Jay A. Olson ◽

Amir Raz ◽

Jennifer A. Bartz

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Self ◽

The Body ◽

The Self ◽

Self Concept ◽

Rubber Hand Illusion ◽

Prosthetic Hand ◽

Rubber Hand ◽

Clear Sense ◽

Reflective Awareness

The self has fascinated scholars for centuries. Although theory suggests that the self-concept (cognitive self-understanding) and bodily self (pre-reflective awareness of one’s body) are related, little work has examined this notion. To this end, in Study 1, participants reported on self-concept clarity (SCC) and completed the rubber hand illusion (RHI), a paradigm in which synchronous (vs. asynchronous) stimulation between a prosthetic hand and one’s own hand leads one to “embody” the prosthetic hand. Whereas participants were equally susceptible to the RHI during synchronous stroking, low-SCC individuals were more vulnerable to the illusion during asynchronous stroking, when the effect is unwarranted. Conceptually replicating and extending this finding, in Study 2, low-SCC individuals were more susceptible to the body-swap illusion—the impression that another person’s body is one’s own. These findings suggest that a clear sense of self implies clarity and stability of both the self-concept and the bodily self.

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When the Body Defines the Self: Self-Concept Clarity, Internalization, and Body Image

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology ◽

10.1521/jscp.2009.28.1.94 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 94-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 60

Author(s):

Lenny R. Vartanian

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

The Body ◽

The Self ◽

Self Concept

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Mirror self-recognition

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy ◽

10.4324/9780415249126-w050-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Theresa Schilhab

Keyword(s):

Comparative Psychology ◽

Mental States ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

The Body ◽

The Self ◽

Self Concept ◽

General Interest ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Mark Test ◽

Self Recognition

Mirror self-recognition (MSR) refers to the empirical investigation of self-awareness, also known as the ‘mirror and mark test’ introduced by psychologist Gordon G. Gallup (1970). The ability to direct behaviour to previously unseen parts of the body such as the inside of the mouth or to groom the eye by the aid of mirrors has been interpreted as the recognition of the self and evidence of a self-concept. Unknowingly, a similar approach was developed independently with children (Amsterdam 1972). The successful passing of the mirror and mark test has been widely used as a benchmark for distinguishing conscious and non-conscious species within fields with a general interest in evolutionary perspectives on consciousness and cognition such as comparative psychology and cognitive ethology, although controversies about the methodology and theoretical framework persist. These disputes question our intuitions about consciousness and accentuate the epistemic difficulty of obtaining evidence on mental states in others.

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Body Image and Self-Concept in Schizophrenia

Journal of Mental Science ◽

10.1192/bjp.106.442.17 ◽

1960 ◽

Vol 106 (442) ◽

pp. 17-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

T. E. Weckowicz ◽

R. Sommer

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Body Schema ◽

Point Of View ◽

The Body ◽

The Self ◽

Self Concept ◽

Whole Body ◽

Constant Change ◽

And Performance ◽

Body Ego

Disturbances of ego, self-concept and body-image have always been regarded as central in the psychopathology of schizophrenia. The passivity phenomena, automatisme superieur of the French authors, are indeed very common in this disease. There is a disturbance of the self which is shown in depersonalization and in feelings of influence and passivity. The boundaries of the self become loose or blurred and the patient may feel, for example, that parts of his body do not belong to him or that he is part of the plants, animals, clouds, other people or of the whole world and that they are part of him. He may feel at one with the whole of mankind. Self-concept is closely related to what has been termed “body image” or “perceived body”. Head (29, 30) has shown that what he called “body schema” is very important for motor co-ordination and performance of purposeful movements and also for orientation in space. Schilder (53) in his monograph has analysed the problem of body-image in great detail. He has found in the idea of the body image the basis for the body or physical ego. He follows Head in stating that the body image consists of the proprioceptions of the whole body and that it changes with the body's varying postures. Yet neither Head's body schema nor Schilder's body image are identical with the body ego. The body schema represents the constant mental knowledge of one's body; the body image is the changing presentation of the body in one's mind. Throughout the changes of the body image there is an awareness of continuity of one's body, a sense of basic identity and oneness. This constitutes the bodily or physical ego. The body ego in its turn is the basis of a wider “self” which can be called self-concept or selfhood. This self-concept or selfhood contains, in addition to the awareness of the continuity and the identity of one's own body in spite of its constant change, the awareness of the continuity of one's self as a person in spite of constantly changing relationship with the external world, and in spite of the playing and taking different “roles” in social interactions. According to Mead (38) and Coutu (16), selfhood is a social phenomenon and emerges only through interaction with other people, through “taking their roles” and viewing oneself from their point of view.

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