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self-image

(sĕlf′ĭm′ĭj)

The conception that one has of oneself, including an assessment of qualities and personal worth.

self-image

A person's conception of his or her own appearance, personality and capabilities.

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This method may also be useful in some urgent situations by allowing patients to take self-images of the eye and share them with a physician.

Ophthoselfie: detailed self-imaging of cornea and anterior segment by smartphone

In addition, previous researchers have found that congruence between brand image and self-image is an important variable influencing the effects of advertising (Cowart, Fox, & Wilson, 2008; Jamal & Al-Marri, 2007).

Effects of congruence of product, visual image, and consumer self-image on art infusion advertising

Self-image is the attitude of the individual towards oneself.

The comparison of obese students' self-esteem before and after the exercise programme

Her work offers hope that, through understanding the distorted self-images our mothers inherited from their mothers, we can reclaim our ability to see and lovingly accept ourselves without blaming those who raised us.

My Mother, My Mirror

A right brain network of these mirror neurons maintains an internal self-image for comparison with faces that one sees, Uddin and her colleagues propose.

Self-serve brains: personal identity veers to the right hemisphere

It produced five dimensions, which could be characterized and ordered in terms of the amount of variance explained of the children's self-images; Factor 1: self-confidence (21.7%), Factor 2: relation to teacher and school (10.3%), Factor 3: physical appearance (6.5%), Factor 4: sport achievements (5.4%), and Factor 5: relations to classmates (5.0%).

Self-image and peer acceptance of Dutch students in regular and special education

The things survivors of childhood cancer worry about may shape their self-images and life outlooks, and subsequently may affect their ability to successfully accomplish developmental tasks such as dating, leaving school, entering the job market, leaving home, marrying and beginning a family, and ultimately achieving economically and socially productive lives.

Doherty considers poems by Akhmatova, Gumilev, and Mandel'shtam, and explores the problem of the poet's self-image, identifying strategies with which the Acmeists playfully encouraged biographical readings of the fabricated self-image, and arguing that Acmeists created self-representations that were less egocentric than Symbolist self-images, or consciously inauthentic versions of the self.

The Acmeist Movement in Russian Poetry: Culture and the World

Accordingly, people feel threatened by any direct attempt by others to challenge or change their self-images. These perceived threats cause subjects in crisis to defend even more strongly their image of themselves and deny any challenges to it.

Crisis intervention: using active listening skills in negotiations

According to Miles, the Bible's plot begins with God's desire for a self-image. It thickens when God's self-image becomes a maker of self-images and God resents it.

God: A Biography

By recognizing the above mechanisms for defense of our self-image, we can realize that they are often used to defend unrealistic or untrue self-images.

Defensive barriers to communication

The new mythology redefined self-images and images of the Other, the main figures, and narratives about them, creating a new version of ancestral history.