PSYCHOLOGICAL

ASPECT OF
PERSONALITY
Pyschological Aspect of Personality

• Psychological refers to the workings of the mind. It may

even be inferred as the mental or intellectual aspect.
Understanding of one`s personality and make up
implicates the indispensable role of the brain.

• Such thinking and behaving indicates levels of stress that

arises as a result and such could either be helpful or not
in one`s over all psychological condition.
What is Stress?

• Stress is defined as a state of extreme difficulty pressure

or strain. More so, it is understood as physical response
to change and basically considered as a normal part of
being alive.

• EUTRESS - positive

• DISTRESS – negative / unhealthy

Somewhat Stressful
• Arguing with a brother/sister.
• Going to a new school
• Getting glasses or braces
• Moving to a new home
• Arguing with parent
• Parent losing a job
• Worry over weight, height
• Getting arrested
Extremely Stressful
• Lost or death of a pet
• Quitting or being suspended in
school
• Starting to use alcohol,drugs
• Death of a loved one
• Divorce or seperation of parents
• Failing in school
• Getting trouble in school
• Family members having a serious
illness
Stress
• To identify the causes of our stress would mean
understanding the ways by which we can cope with it.
Psycologically, according to Hans Selye, a pioneering
figure in the study of stress, stress can produce a variety
of extreme biological outcomes. He stated that as we
undergo stress, we move through three major stages:
ALARM MOBILIZATION ; RESISTANCE AND
EXHAUSTION
Stress
Managing Stress Effectively
• Stay Healthy. During periods of stress, be
sure to eat right foods, get enough sleep.
Stress management takes e nergy.
• Talk. Just taking things out with another
person can relieve stress. People who
aren`t directly involved can often see
solutions to your problems that you
cannot.
• Redirect. Your body reacts to all stress by
producing adrenaline which raises your
energy level.
• Relax. Try imagining yourself in a quiet,
peaceful place, such as under tree by a
lake. As you relax, try to empty your mind
of troubling thoughts.
• Laugh. Spend time with people who enjoy
a good laugh. See a funny movie after an
especially stressful day. Laughter relieves
stress
Coping with STRESS
• Change your perceptions. Consider failures and stressors as a
beginning of something new. Perceive it as a reawakening
experience and a way towards more opportunities;

• After your Behavior. Leave or let go the stressor. If there is a

need to change the nature of your work or daily routine, so be it;
try something new that is challenging and rejuvenating:

• Exercise or engage in sports. It may do well for your resistance

than a week long vacation.
Coping with STRESS

• Have a quiet time with yourself. Take a walk along the beach or
park.

• Search for more information and learning. Knowledge gives

you more understanding of the situation you are in. Learning more
about a situation can reduce the stress it produces.

• Relax - to control your physiological reactions to stress.

Reversing the physiological reactions to stress may reduce stress
itself. There is a need to attempt to take control of the body`s
physiological reactions.
Coping with STRESS
• Turn to others - Social support of the knowledge that there are
the 'significant others' who care and enable you to experience
lower levels of stress and to be better able to cope with the stress
you undergo.

• Think away stress - meeting expectations and always trying to

comply with these level of competence increases you usual
stress. Learning to deal with stress implies acceptance and
learning to deal constructively and reasonably with stress. Here
you get to control yourself a lot better.
Cope with STRESS
• Utilize some defense mechanisms - these are
unconscious strategies people use to cope by concealing
stress and anxiety from themselves and others. This is a
way to protect yourself from the threatening effects of
stressors, defense mechanisms are as follows:
 Repression - Pushing stressful, anxiety- producing thoughts or impulses out
of concious awareness;
 Suppression - Voluntarily attempting to push unpleasant thoughts out of
one`s conciousness;
 Displacement - Discharging negative feelings or thoughts regarding a more
threatening powerful person onto a weaker one;
 Projection - Attributing one`s unacceptable ideas or thoughts to others or
blaming others
 Rationalization - Distoring reality through justification of events;

 Regression - Retreating to an earlier stage of development;

 Denial - Refusing to accept or perceive reality and;

 Fantasy - Gratifying one`s desires by imagining satisfying events and

achievements.
QUIZ
1. It refers to the workings of the mind, it may even be
inferred as the mental or intellectual aspect.

P C L O
G S L
Y A O
I H C
2. Defined as a state of extreme difficulty pressure or strain.

S_____
3. Who stated that as we undergo stress, we move through
three major stages: ALARM MOBILIZATION, RESISTANCE
AND EXHAUSTION?

A. Sigmund Freud
B. Hans Selye
C. Ivan Pavlov
D. Wilhelm Wundt
4-6. Give at least three ways of managing stress effectively.
7. Gratifying one`s desires by imagining satisfying events
and achievements.

Y N A
F
A T
S
8. Distoring reality through justification of events.

_A__O_A__Z____N
9. Refusing to accept or perceive reality.
10. Voluntarily attempting to push unpleasant thoughts out
of one`s consciousness.

__PP__SS__N
11. Discharging negative feelings or thoughts regarding a
more threatening powerful person onto a weaker one.

P M E
T D I
E C S
N L A
12. Attributing one`s unacceptable ideas or thoughts to
others or blaming others.

P___E_T__N
13-15. Give at least three ways of coping with stress.
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REPORTED BY:
• Roelyn Gail Tañedo
• Ma. Theresa Dela Cr uz
• Jose Luigi Ison
• Christian Paez