Figure 8.3 | Carl Rogers’s Self Theory | According to Carl Rogers, the development of your self-concept is impacted by the conditions of worth set up by those people who are important to you. Their conditional positive regard may lead you to develop a self-concept that is congruent with your true self, thereby allowing you to self-actualize; or it may lead to a conflict between your developed self-concept and your true self. If there is a conflict, then you will need unconditional positive regard in order to develop your true self and self-actualize.