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My paper will be focusing on self image. I would like to learn more about

how our beliefs and values have shaped our self concept. Also how can

the environment and social change have an effect on our self concept. I

immigrated to the U.S six years ago and the change of society has

helped to learn to understand who I am as a person so I want to learn

about how changing environment can help us to understand our self

concept and what factors lead us to change our personality to

cope with the new reality.

Feedback

This is an awesome topic! I’m excited to see what you end up writing about. One big piece of feedback: you will definitely want to narrow down your topic as there is a lot of research on the self-concept. One thing you could do is examine differences in the self-concept across culture, which seems like it would be right up your alley. Shinobu Kitayama and Hazel Markus have a 1991 paper on the multicultural definitions of the self, titled “Culture and the Self”. This could be a useful reference. You may even want to examine the self in a specific culture, such as Japan (or whatever calls out to you). Good luck with the paper!