The Importance of Healthy Self-Confidence in Students

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Sep 5 2019

The importance of self-confidence in students, especially girls, should

not be underestimated.A healthy sense of self-confidence is necessary
for your child to develop social skills, become more resilient, and
embrace her full potential inside and outside the classroom.
In this article, we will talk about the importance of self-confidence for
students, as well as share five useful tips for helping your child develop
healthy self-confidence right now.
What is Healthy Self-Confidence?
Self-confidence is a feeling of trust in one’s abilities, qualities, and
judgment.
A healthy sense of self-confidence is all about having a balanced view of
yourself — taking pride in your abilities while recognizing your flaws.
Children with a healthy sense of self-confidence are able to feel good
about themselves and know that they deserve respect from others.

The importance of self-confidence should not be underestimated, as it

has been strongly linked to happiness through multiple studies.
The Importance of Healthy Self-Confidence in Students
1. LESS FEAR AND ANXIETY.
A tendency to mull over worries and perceived mistakes can be very
damaging to your child’s academic and social life.
A higher level of self-confidence can help her avoid giving into anxiety,
break out of the cycle of overthinking and embrace her full potential.
She will be able to explore new subjects, roles, and hobbies, as well as
follow her ambition without worrying about how others may perceive
her.
2. IMPROVED MOTIVATION.
Low self-confidence can make a child feel like her goals and dreams are
impossible to reach - or that she is unworthy of achieving those
dreams.
These feelings will make it difficult for her to maintain a high level of
dedication and motivation.
However, if you help a child build her confidence by teaching her to
take small steps towards her goals, she will feel a sense of
accomplishment. This sense of accomplishment will keep her moving
forward when the going gets tough.
3. MORE RESILIENCE.
Self-confidence enables students to handle setbacks with ease.
Instead of being crippled by failure, resilient children get up quickly,
learn from their mistakes, and try again.
They accept that failure is a part of life and take more chances as a
result - which makes them even more successful later in life.
4. IMPROVED RELATIONSHIPS.
Improving self-confidence can help children who suffer from bullying or
exclusion from social groups or cliques at school.
They will enjoy social interactions more because they won’t be worried
about the impression they are making.
Plus, when someone’s fully present in the moment (verses worrying
and comparing herself to others), she is more likely to notice the
people around her. For example, if a friend seems a little down or if
someone needs help.
This immediate awareness helps a child develop a strong sense of
empathy and become a person who reaches out to help others.

5. A STRONGER SENSE OF THEIR AUTHENTIC SELF.

A strong sense of authenticity can be a source of power for your child.
When your child feels confident in who she is, what she stands for, and
what her strengths are, she can maintain a strong sense of self-worth
despite setbacks or perceived weaknesses.
In other words, she is able to embrace her full potential and let her best
self shine through.
Five Ways to Improve Self-Confidence in Students
1. HELP THEM PRACTICE SELF-ACCEPTANCE.
Encourage your child to examine her strengths and weaknesses from a
position of self-love and acceptance.
each her that she can address her weaknesses without being overly
critical of herself. Let her know that her worth is not dependent on her
successes or failures.
2. FOCUS ON SMALL ACHIEVEMENTS.
Take some time to sit down with your child and make a list of things she
has already achieved in life.
It doesn’t matter how small or large her achievements are.
Creating this list will help her develop a sense of achievement and self-
confidence.
It also gives her something positive to look back on when she
experiences a setback or failure.

3. SET MANAGEABLE GOALS.

Teach your child to set small, manageable goals when it comes to
improving skills or addressing weaknesses.
Becoming comfortable with small steps can make the big steps seem
far less daunting and anxiety-inducing.

4. SEEK OUT POSITIVE EXPERIENCES.

Being around critical, judgemental individuals can affect how we feel
about ourselves.
Help your child surround herself with positive experiences and people
to boost herself-confidence.
5. CONSIDER A REWARDS SYSTEM.
Coming up with a rewards system can be helpful for building your
child’s self-esteem and confidence.
It can make a scary step or project seem much more fun and
worthwhile.
Simply giving praise to your child can also work as a self-confidence
boosting reward.
Why Choose Marlborough?
Marlborough is exclusively devoted to the education of young girls.
Weaving together engineering, digital arts, robotics, media, academic
research, and entrepreneurship, the Shari and Ed Glazer Center for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Marlborough encourages girls to
develop a healthy sense of self-confidence and improve their leadership
skills.
Here at Marlborough, we don’t just teach girls to keep pace with the
changing future.
Instead, we teach them to boldly pursue ideas and set the pace for the
future.
The Development of Self-Esteem
In this article, we review new insights gained from recent
longitudinal studies examining the development of self-esteem and its
influence on important life outcomes. The evidence suggests that (a)
self-esteem increases from adolescence to middle adulthood, peaks at
about age 50 to 60 years, and then decreases at an accelerating pace
into old age; moreover, there are no cohort differences in the self-
esteem trajectory from adolescence to old age; (b) self-esteem is a
relatively stable, but by no means immutable, trait; individuals with
relatively high (or low) self-esteem at one stage of life are likely to have
relatively high (or low) self-esteem decades later; and (c) high self-
esteem prospectively predicts success and well-being in life domains
such as relationships, work, and health. Given the increasing evidence
that self-esteem has important real-world consequences, the topic of
self-esteem development is of considerable societal significance.

Self-esteem, study skills, self-concept, social support,

psychological distress, and coping mechanism effects on test
anxiety and academic performance
The purpose of this article is to assess the association of test anxiety
and academic performance with study skills, coping mechanism, self-
concept, self-esteem, and psychological distress among university and
high school students. A series of validated measures were administered
to 284 Kosovar students, most of whom were in college (60.3%). Being
in college and social support resulted as protective factors for test
anxiety. Better study skills, self-concept, and psychological.