SELF IMAGE




                       A person's self-image is the mental picture, generally of a kind that is quite resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to objective investigation by others (height, weight, hair color, gender, I.Q. score, etc.), but also items that have been learned by that person about himself or herself, either from personal experiences or by internalizing the judgments of others. A simple definition of a person's self-image is their answer to this question - "What do you believe people think about you?".
Self-image may consist of three types:

1. Self image resulting from how the individual sees himself or herself.
2. Self image resulting from how others see the individual.
3. Self image resulting from how the individual perceives others see him or her.

These three types may or may not be an accurate representation of the person. All, some or none of them may be true.
                      A more technical term for self-image that is commonly used by social and cognitive psychologists is self-schema. Like any schema, self-schemas store information and influence the way we think and remember. For example, research indicates that information which refers to the self is preferentially encoded and recalled in memory tests, a phenomenon known as "Self-referential encoding"

Poor self-image


Poor self-image may be the result of accumulated criticisms that the person collected as a child which have led to damaging his own view of themself. Children in particular are vulnerable to accepting negative judgments from authority figures because they have yet to develop competency in evaluating such reports.
Poor self image is not always caused by other people. The person may be often told they are beautiful/pretty/handsome but cannot see it in themselves.

SELF PARENTIG
                The idea of Self-parenting is that a person's "mind" is created in the form of a conversation between two voices generated by the two parts of the cerebral hemisphere. One is the "Inner Parent" represented by the Left Brain with the other voice being the "Inner Child" represented by the Right Brain. The manner and quality by which these "inner conversations" take place between the two voices is most accurately described as Self-Parenting. The Inner Parent is parenting the Inner Child within the "inner conversations".
The individual quality of a person's self-parenting style is said to closely resemble the specific style of parenting he or she received growing up as child.