noted that some !earners put more emphasis on some of the three aspects of their selves
than on others. Some even showed, or expressed, their problem about finding elements
for one of the selves.

Five different tendencies were found among the participants of the study. The
first one is represented by Ga. Her account of her selves is very even, the three lists were
similar in length. Besides, she showed that she had a lot to say about herself. If we
translate her three lists into a figure we visualise it as the following:

Fig. 6.1 Ga according to her selves

Although in itself, Fig. 6.1 does not say a lot, the reader will realise the difference when
comparing it with the ones in the following paragraphs.

T, another participant, did not have problems when filling his self-lists. The
difference is that his information tended to be more on the left side, that is, related to his
perceived self. He was very aware of this. He commented:

T: I am more aware of my shortcomings than of my ideal self

And the following represents his three selves:

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