Hi
When I started considering this topic I thought this is going to be easy to talk about confidence.
HOW wrong was I?
My first challenge was to define confidence, but even this was difficult.
Here are a couple of definitions:
“Confidence can be described as a belief in one’s self and one’s ability to succeed” (psychology today)
“Confidence is not something that can be learned like a set of rules; confidence is a state of mind” (skillsyouneed.com)
So what is confidence?
Well, I am still not sure, if it can’t be learnt, because it is a state of mind, but it can be described as a belief in one’s own ability?
Then we have self-confidence? Which appears to be interchangeable with ‘confidence’? I thought they differed?
Now, self-confidence is the belief in oneself and abilities, it describes an internal state made up of what we think and feel about ourselves.
So where does this leave us?
It makes more sense to me to see confidence as a ‘construct’ that is a skill, attribute, or an ability that requires ‘building blocks’ of some sort!
Examples of psychological constructs are attitudes, personality traits and emotional states. It can refer to our self-esteem, motivation, intelligence and confidence
Psychological constructs refer to the traits and qualities of a person that cannot be concretely identified by observation.
Constructs exist in the human brain as mentioned are not directly observable, it’s changeable according to the situation we find ourselves currently in and our responses to events going on around us.
According to research in the University of Queensland Australia, It is not unusual to feel quite confident in some circumstances and less confident in others, it is also influenced by past events and how we remember them.
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