Tebby Bear: February 2009

Self-concept or self identity refers to the global understanding a sentient being has of him or herself. It presupposes but can be distinguished from self-consciousness, which is simply an awareness of one's self. It is also more general than self-esteem, which is the purely evaluative element of the self-concept.[1]

The self-concept is composed of relatively permanent self-assessments, such as personality attributes, knowledge of one's skills and abilities, one's occupation and hobbies, and awareness of one's physical attributes. For example, the statement, "I am lazy" is a self-assessment that contributes to the self-concept. In contrast, the statement "I am tired" would not normally be considered part of someone's self-concept, since being tired is a temporary state. Nevertheless, a person's self-concept may change with time, possibly going through turbulent periods of identity crisis and reassessment.

The self-concept is not restricted to the present. It includes past selves and future selves. Future selves or "possible selves" represent individuals' ideas of what they might become, what they would like to become, and what they are afraid of becoming. They correspond to hopes, fears, standards, goals, and threats. Possible selves may function as incentives for future behavior and they also provide an evaluative and interpretive context for the current view of self(Fleming, J. S., & Courtney, B. E. (1984). The dimensionality of self-esteem: II Hierarchical facet model for revised measurement scales. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 404-421).

Considering my permanent attributes i would say that I am Lazy, caring aswell as inconsiderate at times, immature, proud, easily aggrivated, imaginative, protective, competitive, jealous and friendly. There is more i am sure but this is what I think of myself so far. As for my future self identity it would mainly depend on family situation and job for example i either expect to have a very well paying job or a very average job either way would affect me alot for example the well paying job would lead me to be very self concious, selfish, snobby, very protective and caring for family members and shun others and so on. however an average job would leave me more or less the same considering that my family situation would be the same as well. This is my own personal look at self identity if you know something i dont know about myself please say so. I have tried to portray some of these attributes in my videos and i think it would be quite noticible for example i fit in as many jokes into my videos as i can you may not get them all because of thier level of maturity could be quite low, at the start of most of my videos i throw up a disclaimer and most of them will state in a very nice way that i hope that no one will steal ideas from me but what brought up that message in the 1st place would be my jealousy and the need to protect anything or anyone close to me. Im not sure that would be considered as me bringing out part of me into my short vids but i do consider it to be.