Personal Development/Pansariling Kaunlaran
I. Modified True or False: Self-explanatory (20
points)
II. Matching Type: (15 points)
Coping with Stress
Stress
- defined as a reaction of the mind and body to a
stimulus that disturbs the well-being, state of calm,
or equilibrium of a person
● Webster’s
- defines stress as physical, chemical or
emotional factor that causes bodily or mental
tension and that may be a factor in causing
disease
● Stress as a response
- is the way the body reacts to challenging
situations
- involves the interactions between the
hormones, glands, and nervous system where
adrenal gland drives the production of cortisol
enables or better known “stress hormone”
● Stressors
- (as a stimulus) stress is caused by situations or
events that may be life threatening or life
changing, such as separation, moving into a
new home, or having a new job
● Healthy Stress
- certain types of stress that can benefit a person
- stress that is short and sporadic can propel a
person to a necessary action
- types of stress that can motivate, energize, and
spur an individual into fruitful action
● Coping
- very important mechanism in dealing with stress
- can help in avoiding the damages that may be
brought about by severe or chronic stress to
your health and well-being
- can be problem- focused, when remedies or
solutions are thought of to change the situation
to lessen the stress, or emotion-focused, when
the objective is to lessen the emotional impact
caused by the stressful situation
Emotional Intelligence
● Emotional Intelligence
- ability to recognize, assess, and understand
one’s emotions and manage them accordingly
resulting in positive physical and mental health,
excellent work performance, and healthy
interpersonal relationships, and understand
emotions
● Self Management
- ability to use awareness of your emotions to
stay flexible and positively direct your behavior
● Self Awareness
- ability to accurately perceive your own emotions
● Empathy
- ability to see the world from another’s point of
view and to identify and understand another’s
situation, feelings and motives
- capacity to recognize the emotions in other
people
Five Domains of Emotional Intelligence
Identified by Salovey
1. Knowing one’s emotion or self-awareness
- self-awareness brings with it the skill for
self-reflection
- about a person who recognizes an emotion
being felt
- able to verbalize it, by saying, “I am
experiencing anger.” or “I am angry” at the
peak of one’s rage.
2. Managing Emotions
● Goleman
- points out that we often have very little or no
control when an emotion occurs and what
this emotion will be, but we can have control
on how long an emotion will last.
3. Motivating oneself
● Research Studies
- shown that hope is a major indicator of
emotional intelligence
● Hope
- element present when one is fighting some
overwhelming anxiety, a defeatist attitude,
or depression
● Goleman
- points out that optimism is a great motivator,
and like hope
- provides a person with expectations that
things will turn out better or right, when
faced with adversity.
4. Recognizing emotions in others
● Goleman
- capacity to recognize the emotions in other
people
5. Handling Relationships
● Emotional intelligence
- also evident in the way we manage our
relationships with others
● Howard Gardner
- the proponent of multiple intelligences, and
his colleague,
● Thomas Hatch
- came up with four components of social
intelligence). These are:
a. Organizing groups
 - a leadership skill essential in mustering groups
of people toward a common action
- examples of people with this talent are:
● orchestra conductors
● military officers
● stage directors.
b. Negotiating solutions
- this talent to bring people in conflict to talk and
come up with a solution
- usually found among mediators of disputes
c. Personal connection
- this is the talent where empathy and
connecting with another person’s emotions are
manifested
- teachers usually have this natural tendency to
relate to others
d. Social analysis
- this the talent to step out of the situation and
objectively form insights about the way people
feel and behave
- therapists are gifted with this talent
Personal Relationship
- type of relationship which is closely associated
with a person
- involves a degree of commitment to other person
- the very first meaningful relationship every human
being encounter is with one’s mother
- our relationships in the future are shaped to a
large extent by our attachment parents.
Reasons of Attachment
1. Transference Effect
- meet people who are immediately like or dislike
- usually, these people remind us of someone in
the past who has affected our sense of self and
our behavior
2. Propinquity
- we develop a sense of familiarity with people
who are close to us
3. Similarity
- we often attracted to like-minded persons
4. Reciprocity
- we like people who like us back
5. Physical Attractiveness
- connotes positive health and reproductive
fitness.
6. Personality
- possessing desirable traits such as optimism
and empathy
Social Relationship
- broad definition of how we interact and behave
with other people, and how they interact and
behave with us
- in social relationships, we learn to cooperate with
others in achieving a common objective
Other Type of Influence
1. Conformity
- type of social influence
- involves a change in behavior, belief, or
thinking to be like others
- most common and pervasive form of social
influence
2. Conversion
- occurs when an individual whole-heartedly
changes his or her original thinking and beliefs,
actions, and attitudes to align with those of the
other members of a group
3. Minority influence
- happens when a bigger number of people are
influenced by as much smaller number of
people
- when the minority’s way of looking at and
doing things are accepted
4. Reactance
- when there is a willing rejection of a social
influence being exerted on an individual or
group
- also known as anti- or non-conformity
5. Obedience
- another form of social influence
- wherein a person follows what someone tells
him or her to do, although it may not
necessarily reflect the person’s set of beliefs or
values
- similar to compliance, obedience usually stems
from either respect or fear of the authority
figure
6. Persuasion
- used by one person or group to influence
another to change their beliefs, actions, or
attitudes by appealing to reason or emotion
Varieties of Types of Social Influence
1. Compliance
- when a person seems to agree, and follows
what is requested or required of him or her to
do or believe in
- but does not necessarily have to really believe
or agree to it
2. Identification
- when a person is influenced by someone he or
she likes or looks up to, like a movie star, a
social celebrity, or a superhero
3. Internalization
- when a person is able to own a certain belief
or act, and is willing to make it known publicly
and privately
III. Essay (15 points) – Learnings about Personal
Development
MATCHING TYPE – NO. 11