Personal Development

Quarter 1 – Module 3:
Developing the Whole Person-
Evaluate One’s Personality
 What I Need to Know

This material was crafted to give you – learners, the right amount of assistance
for you to absorb and acquire all the necessary concepts and nature comprising
oneself. Lessons are bounded on the performance and content standard, learning
competencies and level of the learners. This also uses languages appropriate to the
understanding of the varied types of students’ learning acquisition. Sequence
of the lessons adheres to the arrangement of the competencies as reflected
on the DepEd’s curriculum guide for this course.

This lesson is entitled Developing the Whole Person-Evaluate One’s Personality

After going through this lesson, you are expected to:

1. Evaluate his/her own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

What I Know

Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter
on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Which of the following aspects alter personal judgement?

a. thoughts b. feelings c. communication d. action e. appearance
A. a,b,c B. b,c,d, C. a,b,d D. a,b,e

2. What stages of development does a person experience drastic changes

in physical characteristics, thinking abilities and social interaction?

A. Childhood stage B. Adulthood C. Adolescent D. Early Childhood

3. What psychosocial theory of Erik Erikson should be developed among
people aged 12 to 18 years old?
A. Trust and Mistrust B. Initiative vs. Shame
B. Intimacy vs. Isolation D. Identity vs. Role Confusion

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4. What characteristics based on psychosocial theory of Erik Erikson should
be developed during adolescence?

A. establish sense of motivation B. establish a sense of self

C. establish sense of trust D. establish intimate relationship

5. The following statements describe activities that are parts of establishing

the self-identity of adolescents, except

A. choosing a career path and social group

B. isolation and loneliness
C. high risk takers
D. unpredictable and impulsive

6. Teenagers experience changes as part of personal developmental identity.

What physiological reasons of teenager conflict during adolescent?
A. because of house rules
B. because of strong trust in their friends
C. because of incomplete development of their frontal lobe
D. because of confusion

7. It is the state of high regards for the perspective of others

and feeling concern with others.
A. Psychosocial development B. Cognitive Empathy
C. Self-Regulation D. Personality Development

8. Which of the following situations shows adolescence cognitive empathy?

A. Giving support to a loved one who is feeling sad and hopeless.
B. Giving healing touch to the sick and weary people
C. Giving support to a friend and keeping the friendship they have.
D. None of the above

9. How does an individual develop his/her personality?

A. having an accurate management of thoughts, feelings and emotion.
B. having a strong personality to take charge of others
C. having an understanding attitude toward others
D. having a focused mind

10. What happens to our thinking and judgment if we are too emotional?
A. We can manage and resolve the problem
B. We can properly decide and manage personal matters
C. We cannot properly think and focus on resolving the problem

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D. We cannot please others negative opinion.

11. What aspect of development is exhibited when an individual can get

along with others and is able to deal with conflicts between them?

A. Intellectual growth B. Spiritual growth

C. Physical growth D. Psychosocial growth

12. During a class discussion, you are called by your teacher to answer a
problem. Unfortunately you have not caught up with the lesson. Instantly,
you feel nervous yet you stand up and concentrate on the question.
What is the flow of the situation?

A. feelings, actions, thoughts B. actions, feelings, thoughts

C. thoughts, feelings, actions D. feelings, thoughts, actions

13. You had a big fight with your best friend last quarter and never talked
after that. After a few weeks, you realized your mistakes and felt sorry
about your actions. What does this situation reveal about emotion?

A. emotions and feelings change, they are not permanent

B. emotion is a quick reaction to our thought
C. emotion is a self-distracting reaction
D. Answer A&B

14. As a teen that experiences psychosocial change, how you can improve
and prepare yourself in shaping your personality with broader perspective?

A. Know how to handle thoughts, feelings and actions

B. Know the ways on how to stay focused to increase intelligence
C. Know the people who will comfort you
D. A&B

15. How should we handle a perceived information (thought) effectively?

A. Think many times
B. Respond with intense emotion
C. Examine the perceived information with positive outlook
D. Focus on your goal

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 Lesson
Developing the Whole
3 Person
Developing oneself holistically may be the goal of everyone. However, there
are times that we lack awareness of our doings and actions that leads
to misunderstanding with others especially our parents. This can also potentially
lead to self-harm. To know oneself is also quite challenging. To start picking the
pieces of ourselves and subsequently develop our individuality completely to be like
an “ideal” person is not easy.

Since you have already obtained a clear understanding of yourself as you have
done all the activities in the previous lesson, understanding the competencies
included in this module will be easy for you. Thus, you will eventually use all the
skills developing the whole person within yourself. So, get ready to unfold the reality
by removing the barriers toward understanding your true self.

What’s In

You are about to discover and share more of yourself. Try answering
the following activity below.

Activity 1: Let us know more about yourself. Recall your childhood and
teenage days. Share your activities, thoughts, feelings, strength, weakness
and other characteristics that describe you. Write three or more descriptions
each item.

Developmental Childhood Adolescent Plans to

Aspect improve
yourself

Physical Aspect
(Physical)

Cognitive Aspect
(Mental)

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 Psychosocial
Aspect
(Emotional &
Social)

Spiritual Aspect

Processing questions:
1. What aspect did you find difficult to answer? Why
2. How does each aspect influence each other?
3. Can you share a situation or experience that prove your answer?

What’s New

Teenage years give us unfamiliar feelings and put us in situations

that form our personal qualities.

Activity 1: Complete the box by interviewing 5 people and ask them to give 5
emotional adjectives. Take note that it should not be repeated.

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Name 1st Word 2nd Word 3rd Word 4th Word 5th Word

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 cenarios Feelings/ Action Results of the
action
Emotion

You have a classmate who

leads in making your
classmates laugh at you. He
also makes you feel that
you do not belong to their
group. You always choose
to ignore but this time you
can’t stand it.

The end of the semester is

near and most teachers
require you to submit all
the outputs in their
subjects. But you are still
working on them and you
find it difficult to handle the
situation. They particularly
remind you to comply
because you failed in the
previous grading period.
You have to pass time
because this is your last
chance.

You experience a pimple

breakout in your face
because of hormonal
imbalance that changed
your appearance. You are
not comfortable with it
because your crush might
not like you.

You always have arguments

with your parents because
of staying less at home. You
spend more time with your
friends because you share

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 the same interests and
desire for independence.

You and your circle of

friends share the same
interests. One of your
friends asks you to try e-
cigarette but you know from
the start that your parents
have negative opinion about
it and they constantly
remind you not to try it.

Processing questions:
1. What did you discover about yourself?

2. Which aspect of personality do you give more priority to be dominant

in developing your well-being?
3. How will you improve the weakest aspect of your personality?

What is It

Who would be responsible in developing one’s personality?

Every individual undergoes different phases of development that form his/her

individuality. Our personality is a product of genetic response that we inherit from
our parents and from the influence of our environment. This environment shaped
by the people around us, culture and practices that we are being raised
in continuously creates social interactions and relationships. This interaction
contributes to who we are today and how we choose and decide for ourselves.
Personality development is complex administration of thoughts, feelings, emotion
and behavior that influence personal judgement.

As a child, you are dream of a good and satisfying life when you grow up. Your
family becomes your helping hand in nurturing, guiding and educating yourself.
When you reach adolescence, you experience drastic changes in your physical
appearance, cognitive abilities, social relationship, and emotional behavior. At this
stage, our environment becomes part of our development from which we acquire
knowledge and collect information to organize and interpret different life situations.

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According to Erik Erikson, adolescence stage of Psychosocial development, also
known as “identity vs. role confusion” is the stage wherein teens need to develop the
sense of self and personal identity. At this point, teenagers start to have circle
of friends in which they build their trust.

Teenagers also experience adolescence cognitive empathy, known as “theory

of mind” which is described as having high regards toward the perspective of others
and feeling concern for others. Being adolescents, they tend to foster social
cooperation that prevents problems and leads to avoidance of conflicts with peers.
Teenagers are very careful in understanding the emotions of their friends as they
start to create deep trust with them. Sometimes, this leads to misunderstanding
with their family, abuse of prohibited drugs, pre-marital sex, cigarette smoking
and alcohol intake. Based on research, teenagers are commonly high risk-takers
and impulsive due to incomplete development of frontal lobe during adolescence.
The frontal lobe is responsible for judgement, impulse control, and planning. That
is why they search for their self-identify and independence which requires guidance
from their parents, relatives and other people like teachers with whom they can
share their struggles. These experiences and challenges are part of a process of
personality development that adolescents need to understand. It is necessary for
them to examine all the circumstances and opportunities so that they can deal with
them calmly. They have be to open-minded to the opinion and advise of other people
in order to shape their future with broader perspective and self-determination.

You cannot escape life challenges so you should know how your thoughts,
feelings and actions in managing personal agency should be handled. Being
an adolescent, you should be accountable for all your actions because these power
triads can either make or break your motivation to take charge of life. It is up to you
on how you will handle it. Remember, your judgement is based on your views in life
and it is rooted on your upbringing.

Thoughts are impression activated by a stimulus in your mind that is evident

from the environment that you are in. This conscious thought occupies emotions
that give life to thoughts and it expressed through feelings. Sometimes when you
are too emotional, you could not think properly because your emotions occupy your
thoughts, this means there is lesser space to analyze the situation because feelings
occupy it. Behaviors are bodily reaction made based on our feelings that
result to actions.

There are instances when feelings are faster than emotion and thought. This
would result to fast reaction and realizing the emotion and thought afterwards.
Either positive or negative, feelings result to actions. Emotions can direct and
control thoughts that sometimes affect your consciousness. This can also lead
to loss of focus. As a teenager, it is very important to be focused on your goals.
A focused thought will lead to high intelligence. That is why if you are disturbed with
your emotion, try to figure out where the emotion is coming from and it will bring
you back to reality.

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 Teenagers experience enjoyment and daunting times but it is very important
to stay focused so that they will lead you to the route of your goal. It is not easy
to achieve the goal but if you have self-regulation that will control your emotions,
thoughts and behavior it will help you be to successful in life. Learning from
mistakes and facing challenges with confidence and faith in God will give you the
power to be successful in life.

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What’s More

There are a lot of challenges that would help us understand ourselves better.
Try answering the activities below to find out the relationship of thoughts, feelings
and actions to better understand yourself and how to manage conflicts between you
and your family, friends and others. Using the following situation, complete
the conflict management diagram. Write the negative response in letter A and positive
response in letter B.

Conflict Management Diagram

Situation 1: You’re walking alone on the road that is so dark and you heard
a whimper nearby.

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Situation 2: You’re working on your research paper and you need
to concentrate on it, but your brother plays his electric guitar despite you
calling his attention many times.
Situation 3: You are about to enter the door of your house then you hear your
father who is drunk shouting sarcastically at you because it is already past
8:00 pm when you class ends at 3:00 pm.
Situation 4: Your teacher tells you that you that you have been selected as
the representative of the school to compete for a division contest and this
is your first time to participate in a competition.
Situation 5: You are the leader of your group but while presenting
the concept that you worked on the whole night, but your ideas fail to impress
one of your classmates which upset you.

What I Have Learned

Recall some important key points in understanding developmental

change experienced by an adolescent like you.

COMPLETE THE CROSS WORD

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 Horizontal Vertical
2. a high regard to perceptions 1. growth through social interaction
of others 5. anything that we do
3. it gives life to our thought 6. uncertainty or lack
4. it is a transition between of understanding
childhood to adulthood 9. strange and difficult experiences
7. ability to control thought, by adolescents that is part
emotion and behavior of developing self-identity.
8. the 5th ego of psychosocial
development by Erik Erikson
10. it is an impression to stimulus

What I Can Do

Sharing one’s thoughts and feelings is important but it should be expressed

with focus and gentleness. Painting is an outlet for the expression of your thoughts,
feelings and emotion. It is an opportunity to see and hear your feelings and emotions
through a tangible and authentic output.
Materials:
Poster paint (different colors)
Brush
1/8 Illustration board
Instruction:
Find a place where you can work.
Prepare the materials.
Close your eyes and contemplate for 30 seconds.
While your eyes are closed, try to capture the colors, shades, textures
or shapes of your feelings.
Now, it’s your time to paint your feelings.
Write a short description and title for your output.

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 My Self Reflection

Assessment

Multiple Choice: To fully understand the lesson, read each

statement/question carefully and choose the best answer. Write the chosen letter on
a separate sheet of paper.

1. This is an important aspect that we need to consider focusing on to be

developed as a strong and healthy individual.
A. Cognitive empathy B. Personality C. Life motivation D. None

2. The following are changes experienced during adolescence stage, EXCEPT

A. Change of interests that lead to have a circle of friends
B. Change in physical characteristics and being more conscious
about their appearance.
C. Change in mood which results to them being risk-takers.
D. Change in their belief and interest for intimate relationship

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3. According to Erik Erikson’s theory of Psychosocial development,
adolescents should able to resolve the conflicts they experience at their age.
What conflict experience of adolescents based on Psychosocial theory needs
to be successfully developed?

A. Trust and Mistrust B. Initiative vs. Shame

B. Intimacy vs. Isolation D. Identity vs. Role Confusion

4. Which of the following characterizes the Psychosocial theory of Erik Erikson

during Identity vs. Role Confusion stage?

A. to develop a sense of direction in life

B. to form a strong identity
C. to develop a personal exploration
D. to remain insecure and confused about the future

5. Adolescence is transition age between childhood and adulthood.

What are the characteristics of adolescence?
A. social cooperation
B. avoidance of conflict
C. high risk takers
D. all of the above
6. Parents continuously guide and support their children during adolescence
stage, yet teenagers tend to have a conflict with their parents. Which of the
following reasons does not explain the cause of this conflict?

A. because of house rules

B. because of strong trust in their friends
C. because of incomplete development of their frontal lobe
D. because of confusion

7. Which of the following is an expression of cognitive empathy?

A. Adolescents dream of a good and satisfying life
B. Adolescents have broader perspective and self determination
to reach their goal.
C. Adolescents show high regards to the perspective of others
and they feel concern for others
D. B&D

8. How does cognitive empathy create a conflict among adolescents?

A. because they are able to develop social relationship
B. because they develop their trust toward their friends
more than their parents.
C. because they test their self-control
D. because they create effective business partner

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9. The following are ways on how to be responsible with our own behavior
and actions, except.

A. Have a focused mind B. manage feelings and emotion

C. Examine the situation D. Make a fast reaction
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10. While you are cooking you accidentally touched the hot surface of the pan.
What reaction of your body comes first?

A. feelings, action, thoughts

B. actions, feelings, thoughts
C. thought, feelings, action
D. feelings, thoughts, actions

11. Learning to identify our strength and weakness will help in forming
our individual personality. The following statement are parts
of development, except?

A. We can judge others easily

B. We learn to accept others too.
C. We can understand our selves better
D. We become successful in dealing with

12. You are playing at the covered court with your friends, while playing, you
notice that your crush is looking at you. You want to show that you are
good in playing. What is the best thing for you to do?

A. Stop playing and ask her to watch you.

B. Concentrate on your play while she is watching.
C. Inform your teammate that there are girls watching
D. Stop playing and hide.

13. You are invited to help in organizing a youth event in your church. You
are about to work with other teenagers whom you don’t really know.
Which of the following situations shows a social interaction barrier?

A. Show a smile when you have eye contact with them.

B. Show to them that you want to be friends with them, saying Hi for example
C. Show that you are hesitant because you think they are not approachable
D. Show a feeling disgust and discomfort

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 14. How can you attain your goals in life?
A. Give up when you feel it’s hard to live up to expectations
B. Practice self-regulation in every situation
C. Learn from mistakes and face challenges with confidence
D. B&C

15. What makes us understand our thoughts, feelings and action?

A. Handling a thought or information with positive outlook will help us handle
the situation with intense reaction.
B. Handling a thought or perceive information with negative feeling will result
to better outcome
C. Handling the thought or perceive information with too much emotion,
we can understand the situation.
D. Handling the thoughts or perceive information with positive feelings
and focus on the situation can solve the problem with less stress.

Additional Activities

Since you have a wide range of understanding on your thoughts and how you
behaved in the past, recall an instance wherein you became so unfair to your parents,
siblings or friends because you were experiencing adolescence developmental change
which was broadening and refining your characteristics that would help in realizing
your perspective in life.
Kindly write a letter of apology addressed to the person whom you have hurt
the most, but very much deserves to hear your story. Explain to him/her the
difficulties you were undergoing during those days. Make this person remember how
you behaved and tell him/her the reason why. Also, make him/her understand that
you also needed his/her understanding so you would be able to surpass
the stage of development.

Dear_____________,

__________________________________________________________________________________
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__________________,
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