Self-Concept: Identity, Body Image, and Self-Esteem
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Chapter 22 Self-Concept
Components of Self-Concept • Identity • Body image • Self-esteem • Role performance • Stressors affecting role
Identity • Sets each person apart as unique, including: • Name • Gender • Ethnicity • Family status • Occupation • Roles
Body Image • Attitudes about • Physical attributes and characteristics • Appearance • Performance • Dynamic concept
Self-Esteem • Generalized sense of worth • Evaluation of self • Calculated on basis of achieving factors one values most
Role Performance • Set of expected behaviors determined by familial, cultural, and social norms • Simultaneous roles • Each with set of expected behaviors (continued)
Role Performance • Stressors affecting role: • Inability to fulfill responsibilities • Role conflict • Inter-role conflict • Interpersonal conflict • Role overload • Person-role conflict
Development of Self-Concept • Ongoing process • Interpersonal and cultural experiences • Self-perceived competence • Self-actualization • Childhood • Adolescence • Adulthood
Factors Affecting Self-Concept • Altered health status • Developmental transitions • Experience
Self-Concept and the Nursing Process • Assessment • Consider developmental level and chronological age • Determine strengths and weaknesses • Ask client to describe appearance, abilities, and accomplishments (continued)
Self-Concept and the Nursing Process • Diagnosis • Self-concept disturbances • Feelings of anxiety, hostility, guilt, and shame • Affect every aspect of person’s life • Disturbed body image • Parental role conflict • Disturbed personal identity (continued)
Self-Concept and the Nursing Process • Diagnosis • Ineffective role performance • Chronic low self-esteem • Situational low self-esteem • Anxiety • Social isolation • Hopelessness • Powerlessness (continued)
Self-Concept and the Nursing Process • Outcome identification and planning • Promote sense of well-being • Facilitate growth (continued)
Self-Concept and the Nursing Process • Implementation • Initiate therapeutic interaction • Support healthy defense mechanisms • Ensure satisfaction of needs • Physical • Psychosocial (continued)
Self-Concept and the Nursing Process • Implementation • Promote positive self-esteem across life span • Childhood • Adolescence • Adulthood (continued)
Self-Concept and the Nursing Process • Evaluation • Client’s behaviors and attitudes • Congruence of targeted self-concept and plan of care • Change requires time, patience, and support