SELF-AWARENESS

SELF-CONCEPT

• Your image of who you are

• “composed of your feelings and
thoughts about your strengths and
weaknesses, your abilities and
limitations (Chauhan, 2002) ”
SOURCES OF SELF-CONCEPT

1. Other’s images
2. Social comparisons
3. One’s interpretations and evaluations
 Other’s Images
“How do significant others
see me?”

Self-Concept

Social Comparisons
Your interpretations and
evaluations
Your interpretations
and evaluations
“How do I evaluate my own
feelings and behaviors?”
JOHARI WINDOW – FOUR SELVES
1. The Open Self
• Represents all the information,
behaviors, attitudes, feelings, desires,
motivations, ideas that you know
about yourself and that others know
about you.
JOHARI WINDOW – FOUR SELVES
2. Blind Self
• Represents information about yourself
that others know but you do not
JOHARI WINDOW – FOUR SELVES
3. The Unknown Self
• Represents those parts of yourself about
which neither you nor others know.
JOHARI WINDOW – FOUR SELVES
4. The Hidden Self
• Contains all that you know of yourself
but keep hidden from others
 Known to Self Not known to
Self
Known to other Open Self Blind Self
Not known to Hidden Self Unknown Self
others

Overdisclosers – tell all, keep nothing hidden

about themselves or others

Underdisclosers – will talk about you but not

about themselves
AREAS WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND OF
OURSELVES:

1. Personality
• Can help us find situations in which
we thrive/survive
• Help us avoid situations in which we
will experience too much stress
AREAS WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND OF
OURSELVES:

2. Values
• Qualities we cherish as reference for our
actions and behaviors in particular
situations
AREAS WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND OF
OURSELVES:

3. Habits
• Behaviors we repeat routinely and often
automatically
AREAS WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND OF
OURSELVES:

4. Needs
• Cause motivation
• When needs aren’t satisfied, they can cause
frustration, conflict and stress
• knowing which needs exert the strongest
influence in our own behavior helps us
understand how they affect our interpersonal
relationships
AREAS WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND OF
OURSELVES:

5. Emotions
• Understanding our own feelings, what
cause them, and how they make an
impact on our thoughts and actions are
indications of emotional awareness
HOW CAN WE BECOME SELF-AWARE?
1. Seek feedback from the people who
know us
2. Complete self-assessment surveys like
questionnaires
3. Hiring an expert like professional
counselor or executive coach