when your self-image is consistent with what you really think, feel,do, and experience , you are best able to actualize your potentials. Rogers also considered it essential to have congruence between the self-image and the ideal self (similar to Freud's ideal ego --an image of the person you would like to be). the greater the gab between the way you see your self and the way you would like to be --the greater the tension and anxiety experienced. the Rogerian view of personality can therefore be zummarized as a process of maximizing potentials by accepting information about oneself as realistically and honestly as possible. in accord with Rogers' thinking, researchers have found that people with a close match between their self-image and ideal self tend to be socially poised, confident, and resourceful. those with a poor match tend to be anxious, insecure, and lacking in social skills.