Care Dorothea Orem Self Theory

Posted onFebruary 16, 2012 - 4:04 am by Admin | 0 Comments

If you are asked to list traits of your favorite person, the ones that make him or her special do you find it easy or difficult to do? It is easy to explain why we like someone, but it is easy to state your own characteristics? It stands to reason that this would be an easy exercise. By the time we reach adulthood, most of us have a fairly accurate picture of our personalities.

We know if we are smart, dumb, flighty, silly, or ambitious. These images that we hold of ourselves are important and can exert major influence on what we do with our lives. The big question is where did this idea of our characteristics come from? How does one form a self-concept?

Traits and Characteristics

To understand our own traits and characteristics might seem like an easy task, but how is it done? The most appealing solution is to look inward. We should have access to our own thoughts and feelings. But as it turns out, it is really very difficult to know ourselves in this manner. A good example to explain this is to answer the following question, are you engaging or boring? Is this something you can answer without interaction of others? Of course not! We need the input of others through direct experience to know how we seem to others. It is easy to assume that if others are constantly seeking our company that we are charming. Of course if they cross the street to avoid us then the opposite would be true. So in actuality, contrary to what our common sense tells us, we cannot really look inward to form an accurate self-concept. We must, instead, base our self-image on information provided by others we come into contact with.


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