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• n  concern for your own interests and welfare

• Experiencing more security and less anxiety than men, women find it easier "to enter into loving relationships in which self-concern is at a minimum.
• Transactional Analyst Barton Knapp of Philadelphia's Laurel Institute added that in therapy more people are making self-concern "the Goal" in life.
• Hers was such a fully orbed and vigorous self-concern that it possessed virtue in its own right.

• egoism
• egocentrism
• self-interest
• self-centeredness

• altruism