Self-Awareness

One interesting concept studied in psychology is self-awareness. That is, how do we view ourselves? Self-awareness can be categorized into two different ideas, one being that a person sees themselves through the perspective that they themselves are interacting with others or objects. They are having experiences that are "I" experiences. For example, I will study for my test tonight. Our attention is from within ourselves and then directed to the world. The other view is when a person has the perspective that they see themselves as the object, and see what other people might see when observing us. This is known as the "Me" perspective. For example, there is a test and my parents and teacher expect me to study. Attention from the outside world is being directed at us and we have an understanding how things are interacting with us and people can be observing/judging us. Since people can take on different views of self-awareness then it could be said that people will obviously think differently and may even react different or be affected differently by the same scenarios. A person in the "I" state I am not viewing myself as how others see me, but as how I interact with others, and vice versa, if a person is in the "Me" state that are constantly viewing themselves as how others would see them. With that in mind, to me, it seems that a person in the "Me" state of self-awareness could potentially have less self-esteem, because if they are told from others that they are no good, or something along that lines, then they are going to believe that they are no good because they take on the view of what others think. This idea of self-awareness can vary across people, and studies have shown that it can vary across cultures. So that argument could mean that depending on what self-awareness view a person takes on can influences their self-esteem, and since the two concepts of self-awareness can be specific to a particular culture does that mean that certain cultures are more prone to lower self-esteem.