Knowing Oneself – Strengths and
Limitations
Self Awareness
• Ability to understand your own thoughts, emotions, behavior, and values.
Shelly Duval & Robert Wicklund (1970)
1. Private Self Awareness
• An inward focus on your internal states, such as your personal beliefs, bodily sensations,
and hidden emotion.
• One great way of assessing the self and know how much the individual knows the self is
by asking the people around them.
Self
• Union of elements, namely: Body, thoughts, feelings and emotions that constitute the
individuality and identity of a person.
• It has its own uniqueness that defines him/her from others.
Public Self Awareness
• An outward focus on how you appear and behave in front of others.
Ideal Self
• It pertains to the image or aspirations of what you want to become.
Actual Self (yourself rn)
• present self.
Self Concept
• collection of beliefs, nature, unique qualities & typical behavior.
Socrates
"An unexamined life is not worth living."
• Meaning, a life lived without reflection, self-awareness, and critical thinking is a life that
lacks purpose and meaning.
Several Factors That shapes Self Concepts
1. Your own observations
• Social Comparison Theory
• people compare themselves with others in order to gain insight into their own behaviour (
Festinger 1954, Goethals & Darley (1977, Wood, 1989)
2. Feedback from the others.
3. Cultural Values / Culture guidelines
The 5 Areas of Personal Development
Developing The Whole Person
Physical Health
• the condition of your body, taking into consideration everything from the absence of
disease to fitness level.
Physical Development
• Refers to physical changes in the body as well as the senses and changes in skills related
to movement.
• connected to our personal aspects.
Emotional Developments
• process of learning to recognize, understand, express, and manage emotions
appropriately.
• it also involves developing empathy, self-confidence, and healthy relationships with
others.
Ways to improve/maintain good emotional Health
1. Be aware of your emotions and reactions.
2. Manage stress.
3. Strive for Balance.
4. Take care of your physical health.
5. Connect with others.
How to manage Stress
Social Development
• refers to how people develop social and emotional skills across the lifespan, with
particular attention to childhood and adolescence.
Healthy Social Development can help you:
• Develop communication skills
• Build self-esteem
• Strengthen learning skills
• Resolves conflicts
• Establish a positive attitude
Cognitive Development / Intellectual
Development
• how people think, explore, and figure things out.
• development of knowledge, skills, problem-solving, and dispositions, which helps a
person to think about and understand the world around them.
Spiritual Development
• discovering oneself beyond the ego known as the soul, spirit, or the "inner essence" that
is often disregarded or taken for granted (Llaneza-Ramos, 2017)
Personality
• the long standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and
behave in specific ways.
Thoughts (Acc. [Link]) (what you think)
• product of mental activity that which the capacity or faculty of thinking.
Feelings (How you feel)
• a conscious feeling experience.
Behaviour (what you do)
• organisms external reactions to its environment.
Cognitive behavioural Therapy
• One popular kind of counseling.
Our THOUGHTS, FEELINGS, & EMOTIONS are the only
things we can control
We need to learn the science-based
We can evaluate reality more clearly, make better decisions, and improve our ability.
Daniel Kahneman – Behavioral Economics
System 1
Autopilot System
• Corresponds to our emotion and intuitions.
• Its cognitive process take place mainly in the Amygdala.
• It guides our daily habits, make snap decisions.
System 2
Intentional system
• reflects our rational thinking and centers around the PREFRONTAL CORTEX.
o (part of brain that evolve more recently.)
• helps us handling more complex mental activities such as logical reasoning, probability
thinking.
• It is mentally tiring.
According to Dr. Tsipurski, the only manageable and controllable aspect that we can use to
combat are the things that we already have.
Developmental Tasks and Challenges
Experienced During Adolescence
Adolescence (13–19 years old)
• A period of transition during which individuals change physically and psychologically from
childhood to adulthood.
Body Image
• A person's subjective evaluation of their own body and appearance.
(Smolak & Thompson, 2009)
It includes:
• Thoughts: "I think I look bad in photographs."
• Feelings: "I hate the way I look."
• Perceptions: "I am too fat."
Daily Nutritional Requirements Increase Based on the
Following Factors:
1. Age
2. Gender
3. Pregnancy
4. Physical activities and sports
Major Health Concerns of Adolescents
• Obesity
• Anemia
• Iodine deficiency
• Depression
• Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
Deficiency
• A severe lack of essential nutrients that may cause health problems or disease.
Basic Personal Hygiene
• Body odor
• Smelly feet
• Dental hygiene
Society
• Plays a significant role in shaping teenagers' behavior, character, and attitudes.
Parents and Other Family Members
• Also influence adolescents' behavior, character, and attitudes.
Peers
• People of the same age or social standing who influence one another.