Gratitude And Self Concept Essay

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Abstract Gratitude and happiness are important elements of wellbeing and in positive psychology it has great importance. Present study will test relationship between gratitude, happiness and self concept of university students. As many factors bring about change in self concept, I would see the special effects of gratitude and happiness on self concept of University students, Especially role of gratitude n happiness in enhancing positive self concept. Sample would be 200 university students both male and female from different private universities of Islamabad. Gratitude Questionnaire, Oxford Happiness scale and Robson Self Concept Questionnaire would be used. Appropriate statistical analysis would be used in order to get correlation of above …show more content…

Self esteem refers to the degree to which people like accept or endorse of themselves or how much they give importance to themselves. Self esteem at all times involves a extent of assessment and people may have either a positive or a negative view of themselves. in uncertain or anxiety exciting situations self-esteem may alter rapidly. (Morse and Gergen, 1970). people who believed they had socially desirable characteristics continued in this conviction even when the experimenters tried to catch them to believe the opposite. (Miller and Ross, 1975). there are 4 major factors that influence self esteem. Argyle (2008)
 The reaction of others. If people like a person, compliment him or her, look for his or her company, listen carefully and be in agreement with him or her that person likely to develop a positive self-image. If people avoid a person, neglect him or her, tell him or her things about that person that he or she don’t want to hear person develop a negative self-image.
 Comparison with others. If the people a person compare him or herself with come out to be more successful, happier, richer, better looking than his or herself, that person tend to develop a negative self image but if they are less successful than him or her, self image will be positive.
 Social roles. Some social roles hold status e.g. doctor, airline pilot, or premiership footballer and this promotes self-esteem. Other roles hold stigma. E.g. prisoner, mental hospital patient, or jobless

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