The article reviews the views of various authors on the relationship between anxiety and self-awareness in ontogeny. An interpretation of the influence of the features of the development of self-consciousness on the level of anxiety in children from the standpoint of culturalhistorical psychology is proposed.

The article reviews the views of various authors on the structural components, origins and mechanisms of self-consciousness development in ontogenesis. Interpretation of the process of development of self-consciousness in early age from the position of cultural-historical psychology is offered.