Self-view

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.

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.

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.

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

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;

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 .

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

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.