PERSONAL

DEVELOPMENT
KNOWING ONESELF
 WHO ARE YOU?

• Participants are not allowed to speak in this

activity.
• The teacher will read some statements, the
student who possess or experienced what the
teacher reads has to stand up.
Example:
Stand up if you don't like being scolded.
Questions:
1. How was your experience in participating in the
activity?
2. Did you have second thought about standing up or
not from the statements given?
3. What have you learned from the activity?
WHAT COMES TO YOUR
MIND WHEN YOU HEAR
THE WORD “SELF”?
• It comes from the Greek word “persona”
which means mask.
• It referred to one's public face.
• One self is treated synonymously with one's
personality.
• Constitutes an individual's personal identity.
• Product of social environment.
Determining Personality Traits
 • An American Psychologist who
supported the uniqueness of
individuals

• focused on understanding and

measuring personality in terms of
traits.

• He identified 200 traits that guides

people's behavior.
GORDON
ALLPORT
 • An American Psychologist whose
main goal was to predict one's
future behavior in a certain
situation.

• He defined traits as a reaction

tendencies that are somewhat
permanent parts of personality.
RAYMOND
CATTEL
 Cattell's Ways of Classifying Traits
1. Common traits- Everyone shares the same
trait/s.
2. Unique traits- It makes you different to other
people.
3. Ability traits- Our skills and abilities will
determine how well we can work towards our
goals.
 Cattell's Ways of Classifying Traits
4. Temperament traits- determines how we
react to people or situations.
5. Dynamic traits- the forces that underlie our
motivations and drive our behavior.

6. Surface traits- traits that are readily

observable by others.
 Cattell's Ways of Classifying Traits
7. Source traits- these are traits that form the
core of personality.
8. Constitutional trait- Source traits that have
biological origins, such as the result of drinking
too much alcohol.
9. Environmental traits- trait that have
environmental origins, such as behaviors that
result from influence of our friends, work
environment or neighborhood.
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