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Self-judgment results from thoughts individuals have about themselves and the meanings attached to those thoughts. The thoughts, hence, produce related feelings such as anxiety, anger, and depression. Judgments (The process of forming an opinion, or reaching a conclusion based on the available material.) people make about themselves can become habituated as they are used to explain and validate unhelpful thoughts (e.g., If I am harsh on myself, other people will not be as harsh) and they might, accordingly, be intended to protect people against emotional pain, failure and rejection.
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Bandura (1993) introduced the notion of self-efficacy (An individual’s sense of their abilities, of their capacity to deal with the particular sets of conditions that life puts before them.) [2]. He stated that individuals need other people to be with them, to listen to them and to pay attention to them. Furthermore, new challenges appear continuously as people grow older. As a...
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Phaedonos, P., Anastassiou-Hadjicharalambous, X. (2011). Self-Judgment. In: Goldstein, S., Naglieri, J.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_2549
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