Superiority Complex
by Carla Valencia
What is superiority complex?. Does it have to do with family orientation?. Family orientation is completely associated to superiority complex. A girl with low self-esteem, for instance, suddenly becomes too much overconfident, she becomes superior. All she believes in is she. Striving for superiority, on the contrary, does not lead to negative outcomes unless there is a condition imposed why a person strives for superiority. He has to take some precautionary measures why he has to strive for superiority; he has to bear in mind if he strives for superiority, he must not step on somebody who yearns to strive for the same thing he yearns for.
How is superiority complex formed?
Superiority complex is completely attributed to family upbringing and an insight on self-concept. It is also formed through ones mindset ever since his childhood days and easily seen to the people who are older than him and does not give respect to the people whom they are asking for a favor. Superiority complex, once taken on a negative context, cannot teach us on how to save a relationship even a mother and son relationship will be destroyed.
What is the best way to alleviate the chances of superiority complex?
Parents are ought to make a leisure time that would help in building self-esteem activities for children through these kinds of activities, they will have an early concept of governance and leadership wherein he is flexible to serve his associates and to work for his superiors. Superiority complex, see this way, will be easily reduced because some children who do not get rid off superiority complex are most spoiled brats. A girl with low self-esteem, based from the first given example, if superiority complex was controlled, she will not abuse others but will treat them fairly.
Overconfidence, hence forth, will be lessened. She might have a directed insight on self concept. The activities that were suggestive measure in reducing superiority complex may help retrieve the moral absolutes that the child has to learn and were also to help on how to save a relationship.
What are the ways to save a child from superiority complex?
There are ways to avoid superiority complex especially to the children who are exposed to this kind of environment.
- First, analyze the actions taken and its primary consequences.
- Second, compare one to the other persons based from their accomplished things especially with the role models and successful personalities.
- Third, have a clear mind.
- Fourth, always accept appreciations and never make it as a big deal.
- Fifth, think about ones past as a greenhorn and ones future as an old person.
- Sixth, always have someone to get along with.
- Seventh, one must maintain his inner life [his prayer life] so that he will not be led somewhere wherein he is lost and clueless to the place he has been.
Through these kinds of pointers, the child who has no escape to adolescent will have a broad knowledge on how to overcome and to avoid superiority complex although he or she appears as a spoiled child.
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