Becoming a Person

• An individual must make contact—positive or negative— with another person.
• Processes Necessary To Becoming A Person

  1. An individual must make contact—positive or negative—with another person
• 2. The individual develops a need to be loved, liked, or accepted by another (positive regard).
• 3. Positive regard is a prerequisite for positive self-regard (the experience of prizing or valuing one’s self).