self-image

plural self-images · alternative self image

1. countableuncountableA person's own view of themselves and their own character and worth.

   In other words, there is a discrepancy between her experiences and her self-image.

   2008, Dennis Coon, John O. Mitterer, Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior, page 411

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   It’s to realize that Moon Frye, by cheerfully surveilling her own life, and those first Real Worlders, by agreeing to the constant presence of producers and cameras, were the harbingers of today’s culture, in which self-image is shaped in the expectation of a lens and personhood collates with brand identity.

   2021 March 26, Alexis Soloski, “‘Kid 90’ and the Days When Even Wild TV Teens Had Privacy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2021