Personal Development

MRS. CARMELA B. SALVADOR

Teacher II
Lesson 1: Knowing Oneself – Strengths and
Limitations
Self Development/Personal Development
• PROCESS OF DISCOVERING ONESELF BY REALIZING ONE'S POTENTIALS AND
CAPABILITIES

• TAKING STEPS TO BETTER YOURSELF

• EFFORTS TOWARD SELF-FULFILLMENT.

Know Thyself Read Thyself
• Thomas Hobbes also discussed his
own views about the maxim from
which he used the phrase “read
thyself” in his famous work The
Leviathan.

• is an old maxim or aphorism gained

different meanings.

• “The Suda” is the encyclopedia of

Greek knowledge wherein the concept
of Know Thyself is interpreted in
different meanings.
 Self Conc
e pt “The mind is
consciousne the set of
ss”

Three aspect of Self concept by Sincero

Learned Organized Dynamic

• No individual is • Your perception • As you grow

born with self towards yourself older you
concept is firm continue to
encounter
problems that
may reveal your
self concept in
particular time
and situation
Three components of self by Sigmund Freud

ID EGO SUPER EGO

• Man’s personality is • Operates according • Component of

driven by pleasure to reality w/c make personality w/c
principle it possible for the ID holds our moral
to work in a more judgement or
proper and concept of right and
satisfactory way. wrong
Lesson 2: Knowing
Oneself –
Characteristics,
Habits, and
Experiences
• Adolescence

✓ The period WHEN A YOUNG

INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPS FROM A CHILD
INTO AN ADULT.

✓ There are a lot of changes that happen

to an adolescent like you and some of
those are: how you look, how you take
your role in the community, how other
people expect you in making decisions
on your own, and how you perceive
yourself.
 • According to Tafarodi & Swann
(1995), there are many
FACTORS TO IDENTIFY THE
LEVEL OF SELF-ESTEEM OF AN
INDIVIDUAL and some of the
major factors are:
Self - Esteem
• own appearance
-evaluation of your own
worth. It may be positive • how satisfied you are in a
or negative relationship; and

• how you view your

performance.
 Maddux and Kleiman (2000) define and explain the five (5)
different ways that influenced self-efficacy beliefs from the ideas
of Albert Badura

(a) Performance if you are good at achieving your specific goal, then
Experiences you probably think that you will achieve it again.
When the opposite happens, if you fail, you will often
think that you will fail again

Self - Efficasy
(b) Vicarious if others achieved their goal or specific task, then you
Performances will come to believe that you will also achieve your
goal.

-is not considered as a trait

(c) Verbal Persuasion it is when people tell you whether they believe or not
-It is your self-belief to effectively on what you can do or cannot do. The effect of your
self-efficacy will depend on how that person matters
achieve your most important to you.
goal.
(d) Imaginal When you imagine yourself doing well, then it will
Performances happen.

(e) The Affective your mood or emotion (e.g. shame) and physical state
States & Physical (e.g. shaking) come together, it will affect your
Sensations selfefficacy. If negative mood connects with negative
physical sensation, the result will be negative. And if it
is positive, most likely the result will be positive.
Self and
Identity
According to William James, a
psychologist, “the self is what happens
when I reflect upon ME".
Taylor (1989) described the self as a
Reflective Project. How we see
ourselves is geared toward improving
ourselves depending on a lot of
factors.
Dan McAdam, a psychologist, reiterated that even there are many ways on
how we reflect to improve ourselves, it brings us back to these three (3)
categories:

Self Actor Self as a Motivated Self as

Agent Autobiographical
Author

• Portraying • People act based • Creator of his/her

different roles and on their purpose own life story.
behaving for
every type/set of
people in front of
us.
Judgment and Decision Making

Bazerman and Moore (2013) suggested

the Six Steps on How to Make a Rational
Decision:
1. Define the Problem (select your
most desired course);
2. Identify the criteria necessary to
judge the multiple options (list
things to be considered like location,
facilities, prestige, etc.);
3. Weight the criteria (rank the criteria
based on its importance to you);
4. Generate alternatives (the schools
that accepted you);
5. Rate each alternative on each
criterion (rate each school on the
criteria you have identified); and
6. Compute the optimal decision
Thank you and Keep Safe