self-questioning

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self-ques·tion·ing

[self-kwes-chuh-ning, self-]
noun
review or scrutiny of one's own motives or behavior.

Origin:
1860–65

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self-questioning
 
adj
doubting or questioning oneself or one's abilities

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Example sentences
Your students will learn better when you teach them the skill of
  self-questioning.
The experience of first year teaching can indeed be one of isolation and
  self-questioning.
So they choose self-indulgence instead of self-denial and self-esteem instead
  of self-questioning.
The humor reaches such a crescendo of introspection and self-questioning that
  it ends up as its own best critic.
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