Margaret’s self-awareness was high at the beginning, but dropped slightly after entering the Bureau of Statistics. According to Duval and Wicklund (1972), “self-awareness” means humans focus their attention on themselves, then evaluate and compare their current behaviour, temperament and appearance to the internal standards and values. Based on the self-awareness changing, if applying the Johari Window theory, “open self” is probably the most dominant self for Margaret. “Open self” means the self is both known by the person itself and the others. Explanation will be provided in the following paragraphs.
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Duval and Wicklund (1972) indicated that “self-concept” is the organized collection of beliefs about the self, for example, personality traits, abilities, physical features, values, goals, and social roles. In this case, social comparison, cultural teaching, self-evaluations, and other people’s image of her are the four main sources to influence her self-concept. According to Garcia, Tor, and Schiff (2013), “social comparison” means the tendency of humans to evaluate the self by comparing themselves to others. People used the upward comparison to compare themselves with the outstanding person in the same society, and used the downward comparison to increase their own superiority. The purpose of using social comparison is usually leading to self-perfection. In this case, Margaret tried to use a humble attitude to communicate with the more experienced co-workers and superiors. Margaret started to compare their role when she first met with Dana, thus, generated the conception of her own role. Then, she listened and followed a peer’s suggestion and ignored Dana. The reason why she did that is because she compared herself with other colleagues. She asked her peer about the normal acts of Dana, and understand that everyone feel miserable because of Dana’s temperament. As peers are the main objective for comparing in the social comparison theory, Margaret has …show more content…
Her husband, Adam Cheung, called Margaret as the “brains of the family”, and her friends and family always told her that she was easy to get along. So, these personality traits are cognition that known by others. Margaret also understand her own deposition as well. Then, Dana, Trevor and Mr. Tannen were all known about the current situation of Margaret in detail. As Margaret exposed or expressed her own feeling to her colleagues, everyone knows about the problem happened on Margaret. It seems like open self is dominant throughout the
Before she entered the Bureau of Statistics, she found that she had well training and work experience, which might help her perfectly fit …show more content…
Duval and Wicklund (1972) indicated that “self-concept” is the organized collection of beliefs about the self, for example, personality traits, abilities, physical features, values, goals, and social roles. In this case, social comparison, cultural teaching, self-evaluations, and other people’s image of her are the four main sources to influence her self-concept. According to Garcia, Tor, and Schiff (2013), “social comparison” means the tendency of humans to evaluate the self by comparing themselves to others. People used the upward comparison to compare themselves with the outstanding person in the same society, and used the downward comparison to increase their own superiority. The purpose of using social comparison is usually leading to self-perfection. In this case, Margaret tried to use a humble attitude to communicate with the more experienced co-workers and superiors. Margaret started to compare their role when she first met with Dana, thus, generated the conception of her own role. Then, she listened and followed a peer’s suggestion and ignored Dana. The reason why she did that is because she compared herself with other colleagues. She asked her peer about the normal acts of Dana, and understand that everyone feel miserable because of Dana’s temperament. As peers are the main objective for comparing in the social comparison theory, Margaret has …show more content…
Her husband, Adam Cheung, called Margaret as the “brains of the family”, and her friends and family always told her that she was easy to get along. So, these personality traits are cognition that known by others. Margaret also understand her own deposition as well. Then, Dana, Trevor and Mr. Tannen were all known about the current situation of Margaret in detail. As Margaret exposed or expressed her own feeling to her colleagues, everyone knows about the problem happened on Margaret. It seems like open self is dominant throughout the