Meanings of self-concern in English

We find self-concern and some concern for others, but not respect.

From her present bearing I arrived at some gauge of her self-concern, her self-respect.

Knowledge is possible when you can transcend self-concern.

Of self-concern will tarnish my discerning need

But suddenly he was preoccupied with self-concern.

Yet, physical self-concern was buried under a bitterness that engulfed him like the stifling vapor of a boiling pit.

No wonder Rene's scowling expression changed to one of abject self-concern when the priest's name was suddenly connected with his mood.

It would not necessarily mean the end of unspoken emotions or self-concern; it might not even be the end of social embarrassment.

Was not his mind elevated a thousand degrees beyond sense, carnal reasons, fleshly love, self-concerns, and the desires of embracing temporal things?