What does trust consist of? The expert suggests defining trust as the sum of security, predictability and reliability. “That is, we can trust another person when we feel safe (we do not feel a threat emanating from him), we see and understand the prospects for the development of events, we can predict the behavior of this person, and we are confident that events will develop exactly this way, in a reliable and understandable manner.
The famous psychologist Erik Erikson believed that a child’s sense of trust is formed through the experiences of the first year of life. Gradually it turns into an attitude that determines not only the child’s attitude towards himself, but also towards the world. How developed this feeling will be in the baby depends on the degree of care of the mother, on how the internal connection between them is carried out.
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