1.

Resiliency - psychological capacity to adapt to stressful circumstances and to bounce back

from adverse events (Chamorro-Premuzic and Lusk, 2017).

a. Too much – It could drive people to settle for what’s currently happening to them,
regardless of how bad the situation is (and even if it can be helped) thinking that soon enough,
they’d be able to live through with it.

b. Too little – If you lack resilience, you would always think that life is very much
complicated resulting to unhealthy and destructive mentality.

2. Debt of Gratitude “Utang na Loob”- a sense of obligation to return a favor owed to someone
(Oxford Languages).

a. Too much – Utang na loob makes us disregard our values for someone who, at some
stage in our lives, has helped us. If our benefactor does something wrong, we'd let it slip, because
we have a sense of gratitude to them.

b. Too little – Makes everyone think that we are shameless for not being grateful enough
after receiving so much help from someone.

3. Fellowship “Pakikisama”- is a typical trait of a Filipino, in its simplest sense meaning

“getting along with others” (Pazand Pambid, 2006).

a. Too much – Can lead to us being unable to say no to others, this happens usually
within friends, when our friends do things we don’t want to do, pakikisama makes us say yes to
these things (such as cigarette smoking or alcohol drinking).

b. Too little – Creates a heavy atmosphere between ourselves and other people, not being
able to socialize with other people makes them think that we hate them even if it is not the case.

4. Confidence/Courage “Lakas ng Loob” - strength in the face of pain or grief (Oxford

Languages).

a. Too much – we become maladaptive when courage/confidence overflows. Someone

courageous will overestimate himself and underestimate things ahead of oneself.

b. Too little – Lack of courage makes us seem so weak and easily stepped upon.
5. Respectful to elders - “Respect your elders” is an adage older than the individuals it urges us
to revere (Powell, 2018).

a. Too much – Being overly respectful to elders silences us from standing up to our
beliefs when we are talking to them, we are forced to say yes to everything they say if we don’t
want them to feel disrespected.

b. Too little – Makes us rude, impolite, impudent and shameless. We tend to be ill-
mannered if elders find us disrespectful to them.