Self Promotion

Self promoting behaviors are tactics that we us to try and induce others into thinking were competent. The tactics could be as simple as making an excuse for why we were not competent in a situation or it could be more complex such as staging our action at specific times and in specific instances in the presence of others, which we want to convince of our competence. As people we want to be seen as competent. To take pride in our skills, knowing that others understand and know how good we are at something. Yet this idea of self-promotion can be at odds with the ideals that those who are participants in religious activity should hold. Those who have a religious affiliation should be more selfless and less self-promoting than those without …show more content…
First, the questionnaire is not proven reliable or valid. Second, there was not a broad range of participants. They were limited to those who worked the midday or night shift as well as only those that worked on the day sampled. There also was uneven availability of female to male respondents due to the nature of the work environment. This studies implementation and design could have been improve by using a reliable and valid questionnaire and also by conducting the survey throughout the week during various times of the day. This study if valid shows that even those who should hold beliefs that limit self-promotion, such as Christians, may not be any different than the rest of the world. This idea, coupled with the fact that those who responded as having a religious affiliation indicated low levels of participation make us wonder at the state of Christianity within America. Is Christianity making an impact on the here and now, or is just a label we give ourselves with no real intrinsic change, only a pretense of change with extrinsic formality. This study taught me that my stereotypes and ideas of people are not as accurate as I would like to believe. The nonreligious may be more selfless than the