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 own life as one wishes.
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. Thus, his self-realization is carried out, which affects emotions, interests, outlooks 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. The presence of communication with your "I". This includes self-esteem, and willpower, and self-attitude.
The function of self-assertion is the desire to achieve personal certainty, self-realization, recognition, getting out of someone’s influence, liberation from dependence. To achieve all this, you need to have a certain personal potential, be at a sufficient level of development of strong-willed qualities, be aware of your own value and the value of your own being, strive to achieve goals and success.