Practicing self-awareness is about learning to better understand why you feel what you feel and why you behave in a particular way. Having this awareness gives you the opportunity and freedom to change things about yourself, enabling you to create a life that you want. It’s almost impossible to change and become self-accepting if you are unsure as to who you are. Having clarity about who you are and what you want can be empowering, giving you the confidence to make changes. 

Anger management is also a domain of mental health that is associated with the concept of self-awareness in teens

Level 5: Self-consciousness or "meta" self-awareness. At this level not only is the self seen from a first person view but it is realized that it is also seen from a third person's view. They begin to understand they can be in the mind of others. For instance, how they are seen from a public standpoint

In developing self–awareness through self-exploration and social experiences one can broaden one's social world and become more familiar with the self.

Albert Bandura's theory of self-efficacy builds on our varying degrees of self-awareness.

A theory of objective self awareness, states that when we focus our attention on ourselves, we evaluate and compare our current behavior to our internal standards and values

self-awareness is the recognition of that awareness.