Personal Reflection Paper
Chris Sanchez
January 5, 2011
Psychology 400
David Lagerson
Personal Reflection paper
Self and the concept of self is an interesting topic to many including, psychologist sociologist, philosophers and countless others trying to define the idea of self and what it means to each individual. Every individual has a different idea and thought about self and how self makes up their entire being. Self is made of the human’s own biology his or her cognitive process and perception of one self compared to others. This paper is going to look at the concept of self and how this relates to real-life situations affects a person’s self efficacy and esteem.
According to Myers (2010) the concept of social
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Individual’s more often then not want to appear consistent with their convictions and actions and never incontinent so he or she will attempt to correspond these together for one self presentation and feel a cognitive dissonance. Which is a feeling of his or her convictions and or actions not matching. This will cause a lack of harmony and tension (Myers, 2010). An example of this is would be cigarette smokers being less likely than the non-smoker recognizing and consider that smoking would be hazardous to one’s health.
The confidence in your own abilities and functioning with a sense that you will be effective and competent performing a task is self-efficacy. Ultimately, it is an individual’s belief in their own ability and trying to make behaviors consistent. It is so important to have self-efficacy because the individual has to believe that he or she can and will create a successful outcome by their actions and behavior. If not the motivation and their inner drive during hard times would be non existing due to fact of failing would be the only outcome. Motivation is a key factor when discussing someone’s efficacy. A person’s motivation will either rise or fall due to the individual’s efficacy and relate to their helplessness, anxiety and or depression. Self-efficacy is easily confused with self-esteem yet they are very
Albert Bandura , defined self-efficacy as a person’s belief in their ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task. This can determine how a person approach their goals, tasks, and challenges.
Self-efficacy begins with one’s belief in one’s ability to succeed in specific accomplishments. One’s sense of self-efficacy affects our way of thinking, decision-making and can implement important decisions made within our lives. According to psychologist Albert Bandura, a person’s self efficacy will strongly influence how that person approaches a task or goal. For instance, if a woman has a strong belief that she can learn new dance steps, she will be more likely to say yes when asked if she wants to learn a new dance. However, if her belief in her ability is weak, she will less likely say yes to learning a new dance and might feel frustrated.
In today’s era self-efficacy has been known to be that, one person can perform any given activity based upon their own beliefs and convictions. According to Bandura “self-efficacy plays an important role and also determines whether or not someone attempts to perform a certain given task, how driven they are when faced with difficulties and also how successful someone is when performing a given
Self-efficacy is concerned with a person's estimate of their personal capabilities. Successful performance of a behavior leading to a positive experiences leads to a high level of self-efficacy, failures diminish the level of self-efficacy.
Self-Efficacy is having the belief and confidence on your abilities to achieve the goal you have chosen (Bandura, 2001). This means that self-efficacy is that believe that a person can achieve the goals that they set for themselves. These goals all should do with the persons entire self. Self-efficacy describes how they think, how they feel, and importantly how they feel.
Self-efficacy is defined as one’s belief in one’s ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task. Self-efficacy
Organizational behavior studies human behavior in organizational settings and the influence and impact individual behavior has on the workplace. To provide a personal perspective of personality characteristics, the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) assessment was used to measure aspects of my personality and how these traits relate to working with others and life within an organization. Key observations provide specific insight into how these are applied to workplace behavior and interactions with others. Personal self-reflection related to workplace behavior is offered, including lessons learned to assist in becoming a better employee, coworker, and/or manager, and how the Holy Spirit has assisted in transforming weaknesses
Nurses eat their own is an established adage which is an oxymoron attached to the profession of nursing. The representation of a nurse is one of compassion and caring for the patients, but this is not extended to one another within the workplace. The significance of this study by the nurse authors A. Barrett, C. Piatek, S. Lorberto, and C. Padula was to bring civility, nurse satisfaction and cohesiveness to the workplace by developing team building interventions, and expurgating lateral violence between the staff. However, numerous studies been performed to improve the nurse to nurse relationship and consequently improving evidence base outcomes.
Invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization are two things that most people will experience in their lifetime. I know for I personally have experienced both during my 28 years of life. Invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization can both be damaging to yourself and other people involved. That is why I'd like to take the time to explain a few important topics on invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization, such as; how to stop invidious comparison, identify strategies that I currently use to avoid vicarious traumatization in my personal life, how those strategies will help me avoid vicarious traumatization as a human service worker and what strategies I could develop to avoid it as well.
Self-efficacy can be described as the level self-confidence that a person has when they try to do something. It is important in making a behavioral change because people need to envision themselves succeeding.
The beverage industry usually refers to the production of drinking products, and can vary depending on the ingredients and process each beverage has. The main characters in this industry are the water, coffee, energy drinks, dairy alternatives, juices, tea, wine & spirits, sports & protein drinks, beer and CSD´S.
This paper will define the concept of self, and explain how an individual develops a self-concept. It will explain the relationship between the self and emotion and how this relationship affects an individual’s self-esteem. It will also explain the relationship between the self and behavior and how this relationship affects an individual’s self-presentation.
If you manage, run or won an office, you know how hectic the cleanliness and maintenance of the spaces in the building can be. Unless you rent or own the entire building, the landlord will expect you as the tenant to clean up and maintain your rented office space. On their part, your landlord will clean the common areas like the public rest rooms, hallways elevators and lobbies. As a manger or business owner needing to keep the office clean, there are two option: hire in-house staff or hire an office cleaner. Depending on your needs, you can find persons to employ or contract out the cleaning functions of the office. The following are the pros and cons of hiring of hiring an office cleaner.
I am now approaching the conclusion of my college career and starting to adjust to work life. This is a period of self-reflection and an attempt to put everything I learned into perspective. During this period of my life, I have been constantly thinking and contemplating my future. I feel very anxious yet nervous during this time while I am adjusting to this new stage of my life. When I was in High school my life was very structured, because I could be very dependent on peoples help and I obviously still lived with my family. When I went to college, I had to break away from that feeling of dependency and start the adjusting to adulthood. In college there was more responsibility and I started to become more independent. This was a crucial step in my life but choosing a career is going to be an even bigger step. It is a bigger step because; I have to start structuring my career goals and family goal for the future. At this moment all I can think about is my career, and how I can I keep improving myself for work life.
There is something very important an individual may develop after graduating high school, or for some, even after college. A life skill that is required sometime before someone is put into the “real world”, which is what most teachers would label as the start to earning one’s own income and live on their own. For most people, they may acquire this skill after graduating college or high school. For me, I developed this valued skill at a young age. In my household, I grew up with one brother in high school, a father, and a mother, a normal family. What’s different is that I grew up in an Asian family. In fact, I was the only one to be born in the United States in my family tree. What that means is that I have had to gain responsibilities at a very young age, one might say too young. My past is represented by many negative effects due to my ethnicity, but now I have found that the repercussions has caused me to develop everything I need to successful later in my life.