self-view noun2 •One's conceptualization of oneself; sense of identity; self-image.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 •(old-fashioned) Carefulness or regard for one's own interests.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 — 1597 formsself-views