Exploring the Concept-of-Self
Current Study
The Concept-of-Self: Understanding of the Self and Being “Me”
Including examination of the relationship between the Concept-of-Self and:
✔ Satisfaction with life
✔ Meaning in life
✔ Primal World Views (i.e. beliefs about the world as whole)
✔ Positive and negative affect (i.e. mood)
✔ Self-esteem
✔ Authenticity
✔ Belief in true selves
✔ Mindful attention and awareness
✔ Private self-consciousness (intrapersonal self-awareness)
✔ Reflection and rumination (i.e. your utility of thinking)
✔ Self-Concept Clarity (i.e. your consistency of beliefs)
✔ Personality (the Big 5)
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Previous Study
Understanding “I”, “Me”, and “Myself”: Development of the Concept-of-Self (CoS) Scale and an Examination of the Relationship with Free Will and Locus of Control.
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"That is such a 'me' thing to do",
"I have always been like this",
"I wasn't myself yesterday".
Sound familiar?
We use and hear statements like this all the time. There is an inherent implicit understanding of the self most people have, without ever having consciously thought about the concept and we don't all mean the same thing. What if this understanding is influencing our interactions, the way we understand the world and events that happen?
This research measures how an individual thinks about and understands the concept-of-self and examines if there is a relationship to how we interpret our interactions and experiences.
The Concept-of-Self: Definitions & Distinctions
| Concept-of-self |
An a priori, internal, and intrapersonal notion of how an individual understands and thinks about self in a personal sense; of me-ness, I, or myself "my own self", "of being ‘me’”- their concept-of-self.
| Nature-of-self |
A metaphysical and phenomenological notion of how an individual understands and thinks about self in a general sense (in the world); "essence of self"- the nature-of-self
Grey Matters
(Frost, 2021)
Heather is in the process of communicating the results of the two studies to the general population, practitioners and researchers. The results of this study will be published in academic journals and the findings expanded on in Heather's PhD.
Contact Heather for copies and permission to use the Concept-of-Self Scale in research so this are can be expanded on and developed in the future.
PhD
Current Research
How “I” Recognise, Interpret, and Know “Who” I Am: Does Understanding the Concept-of-Self Increase Coach Self-Awareness of Beliefs and Decentering of Thought, Reduce Bias and Self-Delusion, Improving Coaching Effectiveness?
See Heather's Henley Business School Research Faculty Bio here
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