This assignment allows you to explore the effects of social influences on personal development.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you examine the concept of the self. Address the following:

• Identify who was in the radius of significant others that shaped your development through your toddler, child, and adolescent years.
• Identify verbal messages you recall that suggested situational or dispositional attributions about you.
• Describe how you developed your current attitudes toward authority, competitors, subordinates, the opposite sex, or another generation.
• Explore the effects your social world has had on your developing professional identity.

Cite at least 2 scholarly references.