More identity theories

Self-concept is a key term that describes how we see ourselves.

Kuhn and McPartland (1954) are two theorists that divided this idea into two parts, which are social roles and personality traits. These theorists stated that as we move from children to adults, we are defined more by our social roles rather than our personality traits. For example, when we are children, we are unique as we are seen for our personalities, such as being happy cheery children, but then as we grow into teenage years we tend to slide more into social roles such as clicks and groups at school and college. As we progressively get older, our self concept develops once again in social roles as we enter workplaces and are fending more for ourselves.
Other theorists have has the same idea, and then added that modern society will emphasize our 'physical attributes', because now a days a persons image is way more important than their personality traits.

Rogers (1961) theory of 'Self-image' shows how we see ourselves, and this is contradicted against his idea of our 'Ideal self', which is what we would aim or like to be. The third concept that this theory is split into is 'Self esteem' which is how we feel about the gap between 'Self image' and 'ideal self'. For example, a persons self image may be quite worthless and useless, although their ideal self may be a confident and happy person who doesnt really care. This would mean that their self esteem is quite low and so they start to hate themselves as they cant physically be the person they wish to be.

Rogers also identifies the idea of identity through concentric circles.

This idea of concentric circles means that as we proceed further out of the core self, we move further than our true identities and tend to put on a mask, a fake identity to hide our true appearance. According to Rogers, the levels of superficiality increase as we move out of the core self to the private and public selves.