A multifaceted collection of beliefs about the self is called self-concept.
<h3>What is self-concept?</h3>
The phrase "self-concept" is used generally to describe how someone views, assesses, or sees himself. Having an idea of oneself is the same as being aware of oneself. A key concept in both social and humanistic psychology is the self-concept.
According to Lewis (1990), the formation of a self-concept involves two factors:
The Self-Existent
This is "the most fundamental aspect of the self-scheme or self-concept; the awareness of the constancy of the self and the sense of being separate and distinct from others." The child realizes that they exist as a separate entity from others and that they continue to exist over time and space.
Lewis says that consciousness of the existential self can emerge as early as two to three months old and is somewhat influenced by the child's relationship to the outside environment.
The Categorical Self
The infant first realizes that they are separate, experiencing beings before realizing that they are also objects in the world.
The infant is beginning to understand that they are an object that can be experienced and that has properties, much like other objects and people do (large, little, red, smooth, and so on).
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