Knowing and Understanding Oneself during Middle and Late Adolescence Personal Development Flashcards
It refers to the process of improving oneself in various aspects of life, including but not limited to, physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and spiritual well-being.
Personal Development
It involves setting goals, acquiring new skills, developing strengths, overcoming weaknesses, and enhancing self-awareness.
Personal Development
Your reasoning ability, problem
solving skills, specific areas you are good at, or the wisdom you gained from your experience.
Intellectual Self
How you feel most of the time, feelings you don’t want to experience, and the emotions you want to improve.
Emotional Self
Your physical image, such as complexion, height, weight, and hair.
Physical Self
Your spiritual connection to your religion and your spiritual relationship with other people.
Spiritual Self
How well you get along with people with different attitudes and personalities.
Social Self
The stage wherein we tend to build a socially constructed sense of self.
Adolescence
Our sense of self is influenced by how others view us.
Socially Constructed Sense of Self
A question that leads to a
better self-awareness.
Who am I?
Once in our lives, someone might have said to us ______________.
“Be yourself!” or “Be true to
yourself!”
Is a state of having knowledge about our existence as unique individuals who are able to recognize our values, beliefs, traits, behaviors, and feelings.
Self-awareness
It is a never-ending journey as
there are still things that we
do not know much about
ourselves.
Self-awareness
It is a technique that helps people improve self-awareness,
interpersonal relationships and opportunities for personal development by giving or receiving feedback on each other’s strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots.
Johari Window
They developed the Johari Window.
Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham (1955)
The name _____ is formed by combining their first names.
Johari
The four quadrants of the Johari Window:
- Arena
- Blind Spot
- Facade
- Unknown
The Known Self. This form of the self is what you and others see in
you.
Arena
The Blind Self. These are our actions and behaviors that others know about us but are not aware of. These can be positive or negative and may include hidden strengths, potentialities, or areas for improvement.
Blind Spot
The Hidden Self. We hide things that are private about ourselves. These may include feelings, ambitions, and opinions that we
choose to hide due to fear of negative reactions from others.
Facade
This form of self is not known to others and not known to self.
This includes skills, behaviors, undiscovered talents, etc. that are unknown to us and others.
Unknown
It is our general awareness about ourselves, the image that we have of ourselves. This image is influenced by our interactions
with other people specifically those who are important to us.
Self-Concept (Carl Rogers)
The three parts of our self-concept are:
- Actual Self
- Ideal Self
- Self-esteem
It is our self-image, the one we actually see including attributes
like our physical characteristics, personality traits, and social roles.
Actual Self
It is what our actual self is built on. It is the actual genuine information that we have about our motivations, strengths, or weaknesses.
Self-knowledge
It is the self that we aspire to be. The one we hope will possess the characteristics that we want to have.
Ideal Self
It is our overall subjective sense of value or personal worth. That is how we feel about our strengths and weaknesses.
Self-esteem
“Part of taking charge of our future is to write a script of our life according to how we want it to be.”
Bo Sanchez
According to Bo Sanchez, there are three kinds of people living on this planet:
- Moviegoer
- Actor
- Actor-scriptwriter
The people who only watch, admire, and criticize the movie of their lives. They are the ones who have no control over their lives except to just comment, react, and criticize.
Moviegoer
They do not just watch the movie of their lives, they act and can control how they portray the character. However, they don’t have the control over the script.
Actors
They do not only watch, do not only act, but they create the whole movie. They realize they have huge control over their life and see to it that the movie will turn out to be amazing and beautiful.
Actor-scripwriters
