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self-ideal

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self-ideal,
a perception of how one should behave based on certain personal standards. The standard may be either a carefully constructed image of the kind of person one would like to be or merely a number of aspirations, goals, or values one would like to achieve. See also ego ideal.


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First, your self-ideal is a combination of all of the attributes and qualities of people that you most admire (an aunt, father, Michael Jordan, etc.
Rather than questioning these unrealistic standards, girls and women learn to blame themselves for not being able to reach the prescribed norm; this self-ideal discrepancy results in BID.
 
 
 
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