SELF VERIFICATION AND SELF ENHANCEMENT
- 1. SELF VERIFICATION AND SELF ENHANCEMENT VINU RAMDAS MBA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF TAMILNADU
- 2. SELF • An individual to the same individual person • A Person’s essential being that distinguishes from others . • One’s particular nature of personality ; the qualities that make one individual unique. • Personality , Ego , Character , Individuality
- 3. Self-Verification: the re-enforcing nature of beliefs • People need to seek confirmation of their self- concept. • This is true even if the self-view is negative and is in conflict with the desire to maintain a positive self-view. • In this conflict, the self-verification wins.
- 4. • Children who are told they are bad by their parents will often act badly to confirm the view, resulting in a downward spiral. • The reverse is also possible.
- 5. Self Enhancement • Self-enhancement is a type of motivation that works to make people feel good about themselves and to maintain self-esteem • Self-enhancement is about enhancing the way we perceive ourselves (‘How can I make myself look good?’). • Self-enhancement involves a preference for positive over negative self-views • Self-enhancement is about enhancement of the self-schema, making it mostly a mental act.
- 6. • Our tendency to self-verify and act consistent with our self-schema may conflict with our tendency to self-enhance. • This conflict may result in either • Compromising both self-verification and authenticity OR • Compromising self-enhancement (approval from others)
- 7. • 1) When compromising authenticity, we go along with what others want from us , but feeling inauthentic • 2) In this instance, our authenticity is intact, but we will risk facing disapproval from other people.
- 8. • It is one of the four self-evaluation motives along with self-assessment (the drive for an accurate self-concept), self- verification (the drive for a self-concept congruent with one's identity) and self- improvement (the act of bettering one's self- concept).
- 9. • Self-enhancement does not just occur at random. • Its incidence is often highly systematic and can occur in any number of ways in order to achieve its goal of inflating perceptions of the self. • Importantly, we are typically unaware that we are self-enhancing.
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