Self-concern in a sentence as a noun

There is no equivalence between encouraging someone to improve and ignoring someone's self-concerns about their skill level.

... It’s precisely because such righteous indignation is not narcissistic, and is not experienced as mere self-concern, that it comes with a feeling of absolute purity – purity of cause and of justification – that seems to license absolute violence.... the anger is cleared to express itself without inhibition.

Self-concern definitions

noun

concern for your own interests and welfare

See also: egoism egocentrism self-interest self-centeredness