self-view

From self- +‎ view.

self-view (plural self-views)

1. One's conceptualization of oneself; One's sense of identity; self-image.
   • 2011, Constantine Sedikides, ‎Steven J. Spencer, The Self, page 164:

     Modesty, then denotes a moderate self-view—seeing oneself as intermediate, rather than as very positive or very negative, on key personal attributes such as personality traits, abilities and skills, physical appearance, and social behavior. A moderate self-view may be entertained privately or expressed publicly.

   • 2013, Joanne V. Wood, ‎Abraham Tesser, ‎John G. Holmes, The Self and Social Relationships, page 57:

     From this vantage point, it was the personality flaw, rather than the negative self-view, that caused people with negative self-views to embrace negative evaluations and evaluators.

   • 2013, Robert M. Arkin, ‎Kathryn C. Oleson, ‎Patrick J. Carroll, Handbook of the Uncertain Self:

     That is, if people are highly certain of their self-view when they reach Phase 2, they will be inclined to compare the feedback with their own self-conceptualization if the necessary cognitive resources are available.

   • 2018, Johnmarshall Reeve, Understanding Motivation and Emotion, page 261:

     Once an individual establishes a well-articulated self-schema in a particular domain, he generally acts to preserve that self-view.

2. (obsolete) carefulness or regard for one's own interests
   • 1597, Thomas Middleton, The Wisdom of Solomon Paraphrased:

     But mark the punishment which did ensue Upon those ill-misleading villanies; They blinded were themselves with their self view, and fell into their own-made miseries;

   • 1751, Elizabeth Justice, Amelia, Or, the Distress'd Wife, page 34:

     nor can I say thet either of them loved without some Self-view. Amelia plainly saw into the Falseness of their Tempers, look'd upon it as a Misfortune to be married into such a Family, and only made this Use of it, to avoid the Crime in herself .

   • 1760 July 1, Dr. William Smith, Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury:

     God who knows the Heart, sees that I have no Self-view in these matters.

   • 1860, Emanuel Swedenborg, A New Translation of Some Part of Swedenborg's Theological Works, page 605:

     But they who turn to themselves and to the world, are capable of receiving no instreaming from the Lord or from heaven, thus, not of being in any state of being enlightened and in a perception of what is true; for the world, from a self-view, glides in, and quite quenches, or drives back, or perverts whatever comes from heaven.

   • 1915, Hudson Maxim, Defenseless America, page xiv:

     Every one has his pet egoistic illusion always under the spotlight of self-view; to him , his own importance is a veritable obsession.