Self Validation

How is self-validation significant?

Self-validation can be significant towards academic performances of the students for it is the recognition and acknowledgement of one's own value and self. This can lower the chance to defend themselves or to become irritated when facing threats to their sense of self since, for an individual reflects on values they hold personally relevant to themselves. Validation is beneficial to students because it motivates and encourages students to believe in their capabilities, acquiring self-worth, and increasing their motivation to succeed. Self-validation can easily be found within. It comes from oneself because everything started from oneself. Self-validation has been shown to have a significant impact on academic performance.

Students may deal with issues such as being rejected or accepted, taking chances or trying new things, and being assigned a grade based on our efforts. In these situations, it is advantageous to learn from what others have to say in order to grow and improve oneself. The best validation that a person can get doesn’t come from the words and the treatments of other people. The issue arises when you fail to do so and instead consider yourself differently or as a lesser person because you do not meet what you perceive to be other standards. Nevertheless, be the first person to acknowledge yourself . Thus, (Kaur, 2015) stated that academic achievement can be improved by having proper achievement motivation and improving good study habits.

In what way does validation can affect a student?

In can impact in ways through:

Improvement on school performance

Intrapersonal intelligence

Character development

Relationship with peers

Acceptance of self

Encouragement

Independence

Active learner

Self-esteem

Confidence

School life

The concept of self-validation refers to the extent to which an individual’s self-worth is internally

How Does invalidation Work?

The act of invalidating someone's thoughts, feelings, or behaviors involves ignoring or rejecting them. It makes you feel foolish or irrelevant. It can take many forms and happen at any time. Feeling invalidated by others or by yourself can frequently result in feelings of worthlessness and isolation. These feelings can then impact your day-to-day life — at work, at home, and in your relationships.

Understanding invalidation and being able to spot it can help you improve your ability to handle it when it occurs. Even though emotional invalidation can occur validated, rather than relying on external sources such as others’ approval or validation. In the academic context, students who are more self-validated may be more confident in their abilities and less affected by external factors such as social comparison or criticism. As a result, they may be more motivated, engaged, and focused on their studies, leading to better academic performance. (Cikanavicius, 2017) The truth is that validation is simply acknowledgment, not selfacceptance. Some people believe that emotional problems are caused by invalidation. at any time in a person's life, it can have long-lasting effects that can persist into adulthood if it occurs in childhood. This is especially true for people who feel emotions more strongly than other people. Invalidation causes interpersonal breakdowns and emotional estrangement. When people invalidate themselves, they generate alienation from the self and make it difficult to construct their identity. When students are acknowledged as capable learners they develop a sense of confidence.

Why not seek validation from others?

Self-validation is crucial for emotional well-being, personal growth, and healthy relationships. By recognizing and accepting one's thoughts, emotions, and actions as valid, individuals can cultivate authenticity, resilience, and autonomy, leading to increased satisfaction and a decreased reliance on external validation (Linehan, 2015; Neff et al., 2007; Wood et al., 2011). It also enhances many, like cultivating coping skills, fostering interpersonal relationships and mind improving the mind and body by adding a positive note to it. Being validated can actually motivate the students to do well in school. Appreciating positive qualities and confidence in one's own accomplishments is not being egotistical or being selfcentered. It is to be able to provide yourself with selfvalidation and have a high sense of self-esteem and self-worth.

Overview

Why should selfvalidation matter?

Self-validation has been shown to have a significant impact on academic performance. (Stricker et al., 2017) found that self-validation had a positive effect on students' academic achievement by increasing their motivation to learn and enhancing their self-efficacy beliefs. Similarly, a study by (Paul & Garg, 2018) showed that students who engaged in self-validation had better academic performance than those who did not. These findings suggest that selfvalidation can promote academic success by increasing students' confidence and motivation.

(Linehan, 2015; Neff et al., 2007; Wood et al., 2011) Self-validation is crucial for emotional well-being, personal growth, and healthy relationships. By recognizing and accepting one's thoughts, emotions, and actions as valid, individuals can cultivate authenticity, resilience, and autonomy, leading to increased satisfaction and a decreased reliance on external validation.

Relying solely on external validation can hinder personal growth, diminish self-esteem, undermine authenticity, and strain relationships (Deci & Ryan, 2000; Knee et al., 2005; Leary, 2012). And thus not only having issues with self-esteem, also with the constant need for more improvement. Draining out all positive standards leaving out a personally burnt out student.

Overall this study mentions the importance of understanding the correlation between self-validation and the students academic performances and how this can address a potential intervention. Validation is beneficial to students because it motivates and encourages students to believe in their capabilities, acquiring self-worth, and increasing their motivation to succeed.

The issue arises when you fail to do so and instead consider yourself differently or as a lesser person because you do not meet what you perceive to be other standards

Glossary

Self-validation: The ability to feel valid or worthy without depending on the standards of others. It is the acceptance and recognition that one's ideas, feelings, behaviors, and actions are understandable (Karyn Hall, PhD, 2012).

Self-esteem: refers to a person’s overall sense of his or her value or worth. It can be considered a sort of measure of how much a person “values, approves of, appreciates, prizes, or likes him or herself” (Adler & Stewart, 2004).

Valid/Validation: A person's worth based on the society's standards they constructed in line with rationality, logic, social status, and other established standards.

Academic Performance: extends to achievement outside the classroom. Commonly measured through examinations or continuous assessments.

Significance: The word 'significance' is the quality of being worthy of attention; importance.

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