Self-Concept and Effective Communication

Our self-concept or self-identity refers to the ideas you hold about yourself. These ideas might include such aspects as age, experience, sexual preference, academic mind, cultural identity, personality as well as your physical characteristics and appearance. And, what the research shows is that how we perceive ourselves affects the way we communicate with others.

Here's the link to a short video that explains this relationship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWq3d55jQyg

For this week: Think about your communication and your communication style -- is it forceful, passive, assertive, or reticent -- AND write a discussion post in which you try to explain the relationship that exists between how you perceive yourself and how you communicate with others.