Abstract
The purpose of this work is determining the features of self-consciousness development in infancy and childhood. The main research methods are analysis and synthesis. The role of self-awareness and personality is evaluated. The importance of self-awareness in ontogenetic development is shown. The work shows that the development of self-consciousness begins with infancy, when the first prerequisites for its development arise, and the first formed elements of self-consciousness are manifested in preschool childhood. The dynamics of the development of self-consciousness during infancy and childhood. is shown. Considers the key aspects of its development during infancy, early childhood and preschool age. The special role of the environment and communication for the formation of self-awareness is studied. The development of elements of self-awareness in preschool age is characterized. The essential internal and external conditions for development of self-consciousness within these age periods were analyzed.
Highlights
Over the decades, the problem of self-consciousness has been remaining relevant within the academic community
Self-consciousness ensures the experience of feeling unity and specificity of one’s self-concept, integrates personality and supports one’s internal consistency
The importance and sensitivity of the self at this age makes preschoolers vulnerable to outside influence; a friendly, reliable and non-aggressive environment is a resource for the development of preschoolers
Summary
The problem of self-consciousness has been remaining relevant within the academic community. Self- consciousness as a scientific problem has a long history. Philosophical views on the problem of selfconsciousness are turned towards the existing possibility of reflection of behavior; and selfconsciousness is considered not just as a combination of certain «self-knowledge», and experiences about the content of subjective reality. Components, factors that influence the formation of self-consciousness in ontogenesis and its place among other psychological phenomena, is studied by psychology. The question “What is self-consciousness?” may be answered depending on certain constructs, in terms of which this concept is considered.
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