Sentence examples for external affirmation from inspiring English sources

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Students are interested in receiving external affirmation deriving mostly from family.

"JHU's Chaplain Chester Wickwire once told me that religious cults [then prevalent at other colleges] never gained any traction at Hopkins because Hopkins students don't need external affirmation," she said.

Carina reveals that she is motivated to make her uncles proud and as they joke about her being their future security, she is interested in their external affirmation and understands that she has a responsibility to succeed and earn a good living.

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Although all mothers benefit from social support, the developmental stage of adolescence leads to seeking external sources of affirmation as a means to reinforce identity and formulate new roles [ 33, 36].

Gabriela mentions a similar, external motivation to receive the affirmation of her family.

Families proved to be a noteworthy external reference group from which students sought affirmation and felt a responsibility to fulfill expectations.

That's why libertarianism so often appeals to adolescents, and why there's something perpetually adolescent about the doctrine: it arises from a self-centeredness an affirmation of a self-centeredness anver-renewed in the faffirmationrnal ofposition—that young people feel daily.

Here, they may be seeking to fulfill an essentially healthy desire for validation and affirmation which has been insufficient in their lives -- either from external sources, their particular needs, or from their own actions.

We want affirmation.

First comes perceptual affirmation.

Sometimes development involves affirmation.

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