The core cognitive element of the self, known as the self-concept, is evolving in children as they grow. The self-concept is a knowledge representation that comprises information about us, such as our views about our personality traits, physical attributes, talents, values, objectives, and roles, as well as information about our existence as persons. The self-concept grows more abstract and complicated over childhood and adolescence, and it is structured into a number of distinct cognitive elements of the self, known as self-schemas. Children develop self-schemas regarding their academic achievement, their attractiveness, their athletic and other activity abilities, and a variety of other factors. These self-schemas, in turn, drive and shape their processing of self-relevant information (Harter, 1999), similar to how schemas affect our social cognition in general.

Ashkeen Shajahan

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