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self-image Definition

self·-image (-im′ij)

noun

one's conception of oneself and one's own identity, abilities, worth, etc.

self-image Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • develop: By making accomplishments, your child develops a positive self-image.
  • have: Others may feel they are bullied or may have a poor self-image.
  • maintain: Moderate exercise is beneficial to the immune system, and can also improve mood and offer an important way of maintaining a healthy self-image.
  • promote: Exercises that help promote a positive self-image are equally valuable.
  • reinforce: Indeed, in Marta's case, as in many others, the assessment processes she had been through had reinforced a negative self-image.
  • create: Repeated experiences with others in turn creates a self-image.

Adjective modifier

  • positive: By making accomplishments, your child develops a positive self-image.
  • negative: Having a mother who struggled with such negative physical self-image shaped me quite a lot, I came to realize.
  • poor: Others may feel they are bullied or may have a poor self-image.
  • own: I can't help feeling you deserve better from your own self-image.
  • low: In such a way guilt feelings and a low self-image can arise.
  • strong: You are deeply intuitive, but you may not have a strong self-image because of lack of trust.

Modifies a noun

  • problem: The peacefulness acquired from yoga practice helps manage emotional swings and self-image problems.

Noun used with modifier

  • one: These lifestyle modifications often present a definite challenge to ones self-image.

Possessives

  • man: Moreau is a fabulously blasphemous gothic replay of the Garden of Eden and a Swiftian satire on modern man's self-image.
  • person: Such a program of treatment is likely to improve the person's self-image.
  • nation: A lot rests therefore on a nation's self-image, a well-edited picture of what it is about.
  • teacher: The non-native English speaking ESL/EFL teacher's self-image: An international survey.
  • child: Diagnostic labels can affect a child's self-image and his or her relationships in school and at home.

Preposition: of

  • nation: Myths are inextricably bound up with the image and self-image of nations.
self-image Quotes

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly- mobileöand the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep.

—Thompson, Hunter S(tockton)