Dr. Jose P. Rizal: A Fully Functioning Person?

Specific Objectives:
At the end of this exercise, the student should be able to:
1. define and understand the terms “fully functioning person” and “healthy personality”;
2. recognize the characteristics of a fully functioning person and a healthy personality;
3. compare Dr. Jose Rizal’s characteristics with the characteristics of a fully functioning
person;
4. compare their own personality characteristics with the characteristics of a fully
functioning person;
5. determine if Dr. Jose had a healthy personality which enabled him to become a National
Hero;
6. determine if they have a healthy personality that will enable them to become ideal
Filipino citizens-socially concerned, productive, morally upright, and patriotic like Dr
Rizal; and
7. discover the beneficial effects of having a citizenry that possesses a healthy personality.

Present Realities:
Graft and corruption, disrespect for people’s right, inefficiency of workers, lack of
concern for the environment, dug abuse and different types of crimes, among others, are only
few examples of existing problematic situations in the Philippines at present. These may also
indicate that many Filipinos at present are not fully functioning as human beings and are not
acting or behaving as they should. Negative biological, psychological, social, material, cultural
and also geographical influences have caused them to become persons with unhealthy
personalities who have no qualms about displaying anti-social acts. This is because a person with
an unhealthy personality tends to be self-centered; her or his main concern is her or his own
welfare only.
Many institutions like the family, school, government, and the church have failed to
develop their many of their members or constituents holistically in the dimensions of human
growth and development: physically, intellectually, psychologically, emotionally, socially,
morally, and spiritually.
Psychologists and social scientists believe that development of social concern and service
orientations which result from an individual’s full development is enhanced if she or he has a
healthy and normal personality supported by a positive self-concept and sound values, both of
which are within the realms of psychological and mental health.
Activity:
1. Research and define the terms “fully functioning person” and “healthy personality”
2. Enumerate and explain the characteristics of fully functioning person.
3. Compare a person with a healthy personality and a person with an unhealthy personality.
4. Review the pictures in a newspaper/magazine; choose a picture which could symbolize
the functioning of an individual with a healthy personality. Cut and paste the picture on
the page provided and explain why you choose it.
5. Compare Dr. Jose Rizal’s characteristics with the characteristics of a fully functioning
person. Did he have healthy personality? Explain and support your answer with specific
examples.
6. Compare your own personality characteristics with the characteristics of a fully
functioning person. Do you have all the characteristics of a person with a healthy
personality? If your answer is no, what do you intend to do about it?
7. What re the beneficial effects if majority of Filipino citizens will be able to develop a
healthy personality?