Self-Consciousness
Students Name
Student ID
Professor’s name
Date of Submission

Introduction
Self-consciousness is a concept that is used interchangeably with self-awareness. Self-consciousness in most incidences occurs after someone realizes that some individuals have been observing him or her for a moment. Self-consciousness in psychological terms can sometimes be termed as a disorder. This scenario occurs since it at times affects the development of self-identity. This situation can at times make someone to be nervous or uncomfortable. However, in extreme cases, self-consciousness is capable of triggering emotional arousal hence leading to unprecedented characteristics. Self-consciousness is also known to be responsible for triggering philosophical reflections on given topics. Many philosophers have argued out that self-consciousness can result in many risks in one’s life. It is important to understand that importance of regulating self-consciousness that we possess. This paper will explicitly affirm that women have a higher self-conscious as compared to male counterparts.
Individuals with high self-conscious levels have been known to have greater risks of having different disorders that are associated with internalizing things. A person with higher levels of self-consciousness record high levels of anxiety, loneliness, and depression. Studies have revealed that self-consciousness can at an extreme point make people lose their self-worth. In fact, most of the women in society have been diagnosed with this disorder. However, psychologist refers this trait as a disorder, and if not controlled quickly they can lead to traumatic experiences. Public self-consciousness involves one asserting excessive concern on oneself as a social object. The problem associated with this type of self-consciousness is that individuals have difficulties in presenting themselves in public. In fact, they are always having the quandary of self-presentation. On the other hand, private self-consciousness is responsible for amplified concerns over the self thoughts that are encountered. Private self-consciousness has been associated with anxiety and generalized depression that affects many individuals. Additionally, this condition is also responsible for withdrawal from social settings by people who have been affected by this disorder (Nishida, 2014).
Researchers have linked self-self consciousness with the frequency of emotions that are encountered by women at the certain developmental stage of their lives. This feeling is said to be intense and result in an internalizing problem in adults. An internalizing problem makes a person increase mental pressures in the head since they are not capable sharing their troubles with other people. In early ages, self-consciousness is at its peak, and most individuals are at their emotional peak. Recent research has revealed that there is a very high correlation between self-consciousness and internalizing problems. However, close relationships developed among individuals tend to ease the state. An internalizing and externalizing problem, as one is growing, is directly affected by the levels of self-consciousness that one exhibits. A study is investigating the personality of individually defined self-consciousness as attention that is directed to oneself. Additionally, it revealed that the aspects that one considers most are the behaviors and the acute awareness that needs to be made on the basis of viewing oneself as a social object. Further, the study revealed that the awareness can be associated with the self of the external and the internal attributes that one has been given. The two broad categories of self-consciousness are elaborate, and all reveal different aspects of this phenomenon. The private self-consciousness mostly encompasses emotional states, desires, intentions that one has, and cognition. On the other hand, public self-consciousness is making someone feel that he/she is being viewed as a social object. There is a significant difference in focusing on the private aspect and the public aspect of self-consciousness. Public self-consciousness has diverse effects on the development of interpersonal sensitivity. In most occurrences, these effects consist of influences that are related to self-rejection and increased anxiety. Additionally, this type of self-consciousness is responsible for paranoid thinking that exists in many individuals. The findings of this research will require a sample that will be analyzed to arrive and the objective of the study. The sample population will include the groups that have been mentioned. The analytic plan will identify the specific methods that will be used to study the correlation. The correlation become between self-consciousness, in private and public, will be identified after the study is concluded. The self-consciousness is a matter that needs a careful analysis, and thus these inferences should supported by facts from the study (Rödl, 2007).
The private self-consciousness is a direct contrast to the private one since it involves cropping up of disorders such as depression, increased anxiety and withdrawal from the public scene. Research has provided empirical findings that revealed that these self-consciousness disorders are very high in individuals during their adolescent stages. In fact, these levels are extreme although in many incidences the problem can be controlled. Additionally, this trait affects the personality of individuals and leads to a loss in effectiveness in operations of the young individuals. The self-consciousness is the primary cause of personality disorders that progress even to the old age of individuals. Studies have revealed that public self-consciousness during the adolescent stage is directed to studies. At this stage in life, there is heightened self-awareness by the individuals contributing to positive self relations. However, the public self-consciousness contributes to increased levels of shyness, poor social skills are witnessed, and nervousness. This research is aimed at investigating various forms of internalizing problems experienced in young adults. Being accepted by certain persons contribute to high levels of publicly self-consciousness contribute adolescent psychological well-being (Bermúdez, 2010).
A study that was conducted revealed that increased companionships between young individuals offer emotional support thus decreasing the risks of internalizing problems. The inferences from the study indicated that high levels of friendship buffered internalizing effects. Emotional ties with close friends tend to ease this situation and saves individuals from contracting these psychological disorders. Research has revealed that these relationships have high effects in the manner in which individuals think of themselves. And also affect the manner in which they process information. The same effects lead to copying strategies by individuals during the early stages of adolescence (Updike, 2012).The objective of the study was to investigate whether these types of self directed attention, the public and private self-consciousness, had different effects on individuals. Additionally, it was to identify whether the internalizing difficulties during the developmental stages had a correlation with these self-consciousness defects. This research focuses on all developmental stages ranging from childhood, young adults, and adults. Additionally, it will focus on the different personalities that people exhibit. The specific hypotheses of this research project are as follows: (i) females are able to score more than males in the self-consciousness questionnaires. By the end of the project, we believe that we will have identified the facts and affirmed this hypothesis. Based on the literature review, there are empirical links that occur between gender and the issue of self-consciousness. The project will involve the use data analytic skills to identify the association that exists and their link on the risks associated with internalizing. First hypothesis: “We predict that females in our sample will score higher on all parts of the self-consciousness questionnaire than males.”
Second hypothesis:
“We hypothesize that people higher in self-consciousness will show a preference for invisibility over Flight when given their first chance to indicate their superpower choice.”
Third hypothesis:
“On the second choice of Superpower, we predict that all participants will shift their preference away from Invisibility and towards Flight, since the audio clip makes Invisibility seem like a more ‘sneaky’ and undesirable superpower.”

References
Bermúdez, J. L. (2010). The paradox of self-consciousness. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Nishida, K. (2014). Intuition and reflection in self-consciousness. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Rödl, S. (2007). Self-consciousness. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University.
Updike, J. (2012). Self-consciousness: Memoirs. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks.