My Best Friend Case Study

Question #1:

For this assignment, I chose to talk about my best friend in high school, Sydney. We both went to a K-12 school in a small community, so we have known each other forever, but I really wasn’t friends with her until high school. During freshman year, we both decided to managers on the basketball team, and that’s how we started to become close. Throughout the last two years of high school we either talked or texted pretty much every day and hung out outside of school all the time. At different times we were both interested in the possibility of being more than friends, but things never really worked out. Since we graduated last May, we haven’t talked nearly as much because I live on campus in Fort Wayne and she lives at home about 45 minutes away. We

She also values faith, openness, creativity, and peace. Some of her best traits include an artistic mind, politeness, cultural awareness, forgiveness, genuineness, humility, and orderliness. Her more negative traits include worry, anxiety, pessimism, and shyness. I think she is a pretty self-aware person with a clear understanding of her thoughts and feels and how it impacts the way she communicates with others. However, she doesn’t a high degree of self-concept clarity. Even though I can’t directly assess her self-concept clarity, based on my relationship with her I would guess that she sometimes experiences conflict in understanding who she is and what her purpose in life is. I also think she probably has somewhat low self-esteem due to some of the uncertainty of her self-concept. Although she would probably describe herself as more of a realist than a pessimist, I would argue that she usually experiences more negative emotions than positive ones and is more pessimistic, which may be a part of her blind spot. I think these negative emotions result in a lower evaluation of self and cause her to have lower