How Does Self Concept Affect Communication

One of the relationships that have impacted me the most in my life is the one I have with my mother. My mom has taken care of me since the second I was born. When I was younger she changed my diapers and fed me; as I got older she still fed me and dealt with my attitudes. My mother has always been there for me and has taught me a lot about life and how to be an independent woman. While we have had our learning points and conflicts we have always been able to overcome them.

Self-concept is the set of perceptions individuals have about themselves. Over the course of one’s life, their self-concept will change a few time because of changing circumstances and new experience they will face. One’s self-concept will also change as their perception of their place in society changes. While self- concepts tend to be very stable as an 18-year-old, my self- concept will change because I am still trying to find my place in the world. Over the course of the week, my self-concept has not …show more content…
Perception is the way someone sees situations and people can perceive the same situation in different ways. The differences in perceptions are often where conflicts derive from. The perception process is comprised of four steps: selection, organization, interpretation, and negotiation. Selection is when the choice is made to pay attention to one impression while no attention is paid to other impressions. An example of this a women wearing a nice dress and her hair is done professionally, but because her shoes don’t go with the outfit people might perceive she doesn’t look good. The step of organization is when we put information in a way which best makes sense to us. The way we organize things we observe; height, race, and other, are all to be taken into considerations. Interpretation, we interpret the information that is collected, which is followed by negotiations, coming to terms with what happened is all apart of