a process that includes mastering and taking on the role of a mother, awareness of the value of the child and motivational readiness to carry out activities for his upbringing. The internal maternal position is a personal new formation that is revealed in how a woman is able to accept herself as a mother. The maternal position is formed through a system of components:
1) Motivational – personal meanings and value orientations associated with motherhood and child, focus on the performance of parental functions;
2) Cognitive – conscious value ideas about motherhood, about the child, about the image of oneself as a mother, about child-parent relations;
3) Emotional-reflexive – emotional attitude to motherhood, child and oneself in the role of mother.