CHAPTER 2

“KNOWING ONESELF”

TOPIC:

 Defining Self
 Personality
 Nature and Nurture
 Personality Traits

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

 Explain that knowing oneself can make a person

accept his/her strengths and limitations and dealing
with others better.
 Share his/her unique characteristics, habits and
experiences
 Create their own journal
 CHAPTER 2
“KNOWING ONESELF”

Self
- In philosophical terms, it is the being, which is the source of a person’s
consciousness
- Agent responsible for individual thoughts and actions
- Self is identified in various context such as;
 Psychology – through our thoughts, feelings and actions
 Sociology – through our experiences and relationships
 Values – through our beliefs, values and principle

Personality
- Is referred to as the set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts and motives that
identifies an individual.

Nature and Nurture

- Personality is influenced by 2 factors both nature (heredity or genetic) and nurture
(environment)

Big Five or Five-Factor Model developed by Costa and McRae (OCEAN)

 O – Openness to experience > Curiosity, interest, imagination and creativity to
new ideas
 C – Consciousness > Planning, organizing, hard-working, controlling,
persevering and punctuality
 E – Extraversion > Sociable, talkative, active, outgoing, and fun-loving
 A – Agreeableness > Friendly, arm, trusting, generous, and kind-hearted
 N – Neuroticism > Calm, relaxed and comfortable

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

 Extroversion (Outward) or Introversion (Inward) – how individual prefers to
channel their energy when dealing with people.

 Sensing or Intuition – How someone prefers to process information. Uses senses

or dealing with ideas.

 Thinking or Feeling – how individual prefers to make decisions, either thinking or

using logic and analysis or feeling which uses the cognitive senses based on
values and beliefs.

 Judgement or Perception – how individual prefers to manage one’s life, whether

through judging or planned and organized versus perception which is more
flexible approach to living.
NAME: __NAGUM ROXANNE T________________________________
STRAND,GRADE&SECTION:_HUMSS 11-2_________

Activity 1
Direction: Explain the ff. in minimum of five (5) sentences. Use the space
provided to answer the questions below.

1. How do you understand self?

- Self is defined as your sense of who you are, deep
down your identity
2. How does the “self” relate to personality?
- Self is related to personality because it is part of being
human of what we are on a daily basis
3. What are the 2 components of personality? Explain it in your own words.
- ID is part of our personality that getting what it wants
no matter what and the EGO is our personalities component
desion-making
4. Of the big five or the five-factor model of personality, which ones are you most
inclined to have? Give some real life situations that you went through to affirm
these choice.
- NEUROTICISM example: I have a school projects,
need to review because tomorrow there’s a quiz and tired from
school when I came home my sister accused me that I ruined
her drawer even if Im not doing anything I remained my face
calm and Mentaly I am relaxing myself because I might explode
if I didn’t do that.. So I explained to her that is our mom who
ruined it because she’s looking for handkerchief because mom
knows that she stealing it from moms cabinet and hiding many
of it.
NAME: NAGUM, ROXANNE T.______
STRAND, GRADE & SECTION: __HUMSS 11-2_________

Activity 2
Direction: On the space provided below, show a symbol(s)/picture of what
represent your “Self” and explain it in minimum of five (5) sentences.

EXPLANATIONS
I REPRESENT MY SELF AS A PILLOW BECAUSE WHEN MY FRIEND HAS A PROBLEM AND NEEDS
A HUG I ALWAYS TELL THEM THAT FEEL FREE TO HUG ME OR TO CRY OVER ME EVEN THEY
DONT OPEN UP THEY’RE PROBLEM TO ME BECAUSE I WANT THEM TO FEEL THAT IM ALWAYS
HERE BY THERE SIDE NO MATTER WHAT HAPPEN AND THAT DEPRESSION MASK GIRL YEA I
REPRESENT MY SELF THAT BECAUSE I ALWAYS PRETEND THAT IM FINE EVEN IF IM NOT
BECAUSE IM NOT COMFORTABLE TO TELL THEM MY PROBLEM CAUSE I AM SCARED OF WHAT
THEY’LL SAY TO ME. THIS IS BECAUSE OF MY BESTFRIEND LAST TIME I TOLD HER BEFORE MY
PROBLEMS BUT HER FOCUSED IS SOMEWHERE AS IF SHES NOT LISTENING AND INTERESTED
TO MY WHERE ABOUT’S WHEN IM TELLING HER MY PROBLEMS. SO THAT’S THE START THAT I
DONT FEEL LIKE SHARING MY PROBLEMS TO OTHER’S. IT’S BETTER TO KEEP IT THAN TO
SHARE YOUR PAIN TO THE OTHER’S BUT THE LAST THING I DO WHEN I WAS ABOUT TO GIVE
UP I PRAY... I PRAY TO GOD TO GIVE ME MORE STRENGTH BECAUSE I MIGHT GIVE UP.
SUMMARY

 The self can be defined in different ways: philosophically, psychologically,

spiritually, and also in thoughts, actions, or behavior
 Personality is the unique and enduring set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts,
motives and attitudes that characterize a person.
 Both nature and nurture influence the development of one’s personality
 There are different personality theories and one of them is the Big five or Five
Factor Model by Costa and McRae, which defines five dimensions of personality:
Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and
Neuroticism.
 Personality traits can be measured using different personality tests such as the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)