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11/05/2024 12:06 PM
Chapter 9: "Self-Concept in Professional
Interpersonal Relationships" from
Interpersonal Relationships by Arnold &
Boggs. Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
Self-concept - answer✔People's complex reflection of their cultural heritage, their environment, their
upbringing and education, their basic personality traits, and cumulative life experiences. Hypothesized
as a multidimensional systems construct, it consists of personal beliefs, values, and attitudes, which a
person holds about who he or she is in relation to self-perceptions of others. Linked to functional well-
being and quality of life.
What is the significance of self concept in health care? - answer✔When people experience a major
health disruption, it stimulates a significant alteration in the way they think, feel, and value their sense
of self and the way they communicate with others in their immediate environment.
What are some of the features and functions of self-concept? - answer✔Self-concepts help people make
sense of their past, experience who they are in the present, and imagine what they are capable of
becoming physically, emotionally, intellectually , socially, and spiritually in relationship with others in the
future.
How does self-concept develop? - answer✔Social environment plays an important role in shaping and
supporting personal self-concepts. Stable, nurturing environments foster the development of positive
self-concept, while adverse life events contribute to the development of negative self-concept.
How can nurses help support a client's self-concept during devastating medical situations? -
answer✔They can help clients revisit personal strengths, consider new possibilities, incorporate new
information, and seek out appropriate resources as a basis for making good clinical decisions and taking
constructive actions.
What is gender? - answer✔Socially constructed and enacted roles and behaviors that occur in a
historical and cultural context, and that vary across societies and over time.
11/05/2024 12:06 PM
Chapter 9: "Self-Concept in Professional
Interpersonal Relationships" from
Interpersonal Relationships by Arnold &
Boggs. Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
Self-concept - answer✔People's complex reflection of their cultural heritage, their environment, their
upbringing and education, their basic personality traits, and cumulative life experiences. Hypothesized
as a multidimensional systems construct, it consists of personal beliefs, values, and attitudes, which a
person holds about who he or she is in relation to self-perceptions of others. Linked to functional well-
being and quality of life.
What is the significance of self concept in health care? - answer✔When people experience a major
health disruption, it stimulates a significant alteration in the way they think, feel, and value their sense
of self and the way they communicate with others in their immediate environment.
What are some of the features and functions of self-concept? - answer✔Self-concepts help people make
sense of their past, experience who they are in the present, and imagine what they are capable of
becoming physically, emotionally, intellectually , socially, and spiritually in relationship with others in the
future.
How does self-concept develop? - answer✔Social environment plays an important role in shaping and
supporting personal self-concepts. Stable, nurturing environments foster the development of positive
self-concept, while adverse life events contribute to the development of negative self-concept.
How can nurses help support a client's self-concept during devastating medical situations? -
answer✔They can help clients revisit personal strengths, consider new possibilities, incorporate new
information, and seek out appropriate resources as a basis for making good clinical decisions and taking
constructive actions.
What is gender? - answer✔Socially constructed and enacted roles and behaviors that occur in a
historical and cultural context, and that vary across societies and over time.
