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Most days, I navigate multiple selves. What I mean by this is that I have my self-concept and others’ perceptions of me (person concepts). Yes, we all navigate our way through these; people’s perceptions of our identities are embedded with different values, judgements, and representations.
In this article, I will use Rogers’s (1951)concept of self, which he defined as the self-concept. Rogers’ personality theory focuses on the notion of self or self-concept. Rogers divided the self-concept into three parts. The ideal self is a person’s vision and ambitions of who they want to be. The Real Self (self-image): how a person sees and perceives themselves. Self-esteem is how much worth and value a person believes they have. (Ismail & Tekke, 2015). Citing (Cervone & Pervin, 2008), Ismail and Tekke (2015) state, “To Rogers, healthy persons are individuals who can assimilate experiences into their self-structure. Concerning the real self, it’s the self that feels most true to what and who we are.
Williams M, T,. (2013) describes self-concept as having multiple projections of one’s self. The self-concept goes beyond intersectionality; it is the core of our being. It insects all the other identity constructs one might identify with, such as race, gender, sexuality, etc. When someone approaches me, they can see I am black and a man. They are rarely…
