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The document discusses factors that affect adolescents' perception of their physical self. Personal factors like self-reflection, self-perception theory, self-concept, and personal identity shape how adolescents see themselves. Social factors also influence body image, such as attachment processes, interactions with others, looking-glass self theory, social comparison to peers, and social identity from group membership. Adolescents develop body images of themselves and can feel self-conscious about how others perceive their appearance.
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body image factors affecting theories personal and social factors
The document discusses factors that affect adolescents' perception of their physical self. Personal factors like self-reflection, self-perception theory, self-concept, and personal identity shape how adolescents see themselves. Social factors also influence body image, such as attachment processes, interactions with others, looking-glass self theory, social comparison to peers, and social identity from group membership. Adolescents develop body images of themselves and can feel self-conscious about how others perceive their appearance.
The document discusses factors that affect adolescents' perception of their physical self. Personal factors like self-reflection, self-perception theory, self-concept, and personal identity shape how adolescents see themselves. Social factors also influence body image, such as attachment processes, interactions with others, looking-glass self theory, social comparison to peers, and social identity from group membership. Adolescents develop body images of themselves and can feel self-conscious about how others perceive their appearance.
BODY IMAGE • Santrock stated that “adolescents become preoccupied with their bodies and develop images of what their bodies are like” • BODY IMAGE – the way one sees himself/herself or the way he/she imagines how he/she looks. • Young adolescents usually experience an imaginary audience where the individual imagines and believes that people are actively listening to or watching him/her. • SPOTLIGHT EFFECT – the belief that others are paying attention to the person’s appearance and behavior than they really are. FA C T O R S T H AT AFFECT PERCEPTION OF PHYSICAL SELF PERSONAL FACTORS • INTROSPECTION AND SELF-REFLECTION – process by which one observes and examines one’s internal state after behaving in a certain way • SELF-PERCEPTION THEORY – explains that people can infer their inner states by observing their own behavior • SELF-CONCEPT – a cognitive representation of self-knowledge which includes the sum total of all beliefs that people have about themselves • PERSONAL IDENTITY – the concept a person has about himself that develops over the years SOCIAL FACTORS • ATTACHMENT PROCESS AND SOCIAL APPRAISAL – people learn about their value and lovability when they experience how their mothers/caregivers care for them and respond to their needs
• MAINTAINING, REGULATING, AND EXPANDING THE SELF IN
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS – sense of self is continuously shaped through ongoing interaction with others
• THE LOOKING-GLASS SELF THEORY – the self-image is shaped
and reflected from the social world SOCIAL FACTORS • SOCIAL COMPARISON – process of comparing oneself with others in order to evaluate one’s own abilities and opinions – two types of social comparison: • Upward – compares himself to others who are better than him • Downward – compares himself to someone who’s in a worse situation than he is when he’s feeling so low
• SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY (COLLECTIVE IDENTITY) – how
people achieve understanding about themselves by being a member of their group