Self-affirmation is an affirmation of the significance and value of one's own personality, one's indisputable right to be oneself, to act as one wants, to manage one's life at one's own discretion.
Self-affirmation is a complex psychological phenomenon. Here you can pay special attention to the following components:
1. Socio-psychological process - when a person actively interacts with his environment. This is how his self-realization is carried out, which affects emotions, interests, outlook on life.
2. Motives and needs for achieving important goals in life (power, success, recognition, etc.).
3. Tactics and strategies that are chosen by a person when making any decisions. They can be protective, constructive, dominant, compensatory.
4. Having a connection with your "I". This includes self-esteem, and willpower, and attitude towards oneself.
The function of self-affirmation is the desire to achieve personal certainty, self-realization, recognition, getting out of someone's influence, liberation from addiction. To achieve all this, you need to have a certain personal potential, be at a sufficient level of development of volitional qualities, be aware of your own value and the value of your own being, strive to achieve goals and success.
Self-affirmation goals
The goals of self-affirmation are divided into compensatory and constructive. There are three strategies for self-affirmation:
1. Have a positive attitude towards life, never despair (constructive).
2. Act at the expense of other people, be hostile, strive to suppress others (aggressively dominant).
3. Give up self-expression and self-affirmation (insecure).
Speaking about self-realization, it is important to understand that there are no external indicators and other criteria by which one can understand how far a person has progressed in self-realization. Everyone decides for himself in which area of activity he should achieve certain success. If, for example, a janitor likes his job, he loves and appreciates it, then he as a person is full-fledged. Only a person can draw conclusions, whether he has taken place as a person or not. The opinion of others is biased here.
If a person is satisfied with life, feels harmony with himself, meets a new day with joy, believes that he has chosen the right path to achieving his goals, uses his full potential, chooses the right tactics and strategies in his opinion, then he is self-realized and self-asserted. It is important here that he himself feel like a person who sets goals and achieves them.
