Class IX: Unit 2

UNIT 2: Self-Management Skills-I

Assignment Solutions
Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs) 3. What are social experiences?
Ans. Social experiences involve interactions among individuals to
1. helps an individual to avoid stress
coordinate activities for the accomplishment of individual goals
and manage time. and objectives.
a. Stress management b. Bargaining 4. What is negative thinking?
c. Negative thoughts d. Self-management Ans. Negative thinking is a mental process in which we think negative
Ans. d about everything.
2. refers to the physical health, Short Answer Questions-I
personality and appearance that help you look more
confident. 1. What do you understand by self-management?
a. Stress management b. Bargaining Ans. Self-management can be defined as the application of skills and
strategies that help an individual throughout his/her life to achieve
c. Cultural factor d. Physical factor goals and objectives and become more productive.
Ans. d
2. How can an individual get rid of negative thoughts?
3. Cultural factor helps individuals build up their self- Ans. We can get rid of negative thoughts in the following ways:
confidence level, self-image, and self-respect. a. By staying happy with small things
a. True b. By chatting with positive people
b. False 3. Differentiate between time management and stress
Ans. a management.
4. is an activity that changes with Ans. Stress management is defined as one’s ability to control and
any change brought about in any objective of an manage a different and hard situation whereas time management
is defined as a process of planning and scheduling time among
individual. different tasks to maximize the productivity of an individual.
a. Social factor b. Organizing skill
4. What do you mean by the physical factor in self-
c. Cultural factor d. Time management confidence?
Ans. b
Ans. Physical factor refers to the physical health, personality and
5. is a positive attitude in which appearance that helps an individual to look more confident.
an individual hopes for appropriate and beneficial 5. List the factors that help in building up the self-
results. confidence.
a. Social factor b. Organizing skill Ans. The following are the factors that help in building self-confidence:
c. Positive thinking d. Negative thoughts a. Social factor
b. Cultural factor
Ans. c
c. Physical factor
Very Short Answer Questions
Short Answer Questions-II
1. What is decision making? 1. What do you mean by self-confidence?
Ans. Decision making is a process of making decisions between two or
Ans. Self-confidence can be defined as a belief in one’s personal
more things and actions.
abilities, potentials and strengths. It means someone is self-
2. What is time management? assured about his/her skills and capabilities to achieve goals
and objectives. Self-confident people are generally assured of
Ans. Time management is a process of planning and scheduling themselves and their abilities take risks and challenges and do not
time among different tasks to maximize the productivity of an hesitate to try new things and think about their future positivity.
individual.

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2. Write the significance of staying clean, hygienic and Long Answer Questions
smart in building up self-confidence.
1. What is self-confidence? Discuss some tips to build
Ans. Staying clean, hygienic and smart improve self-confidence since
self-confidence.
it improves your personal appearance. Simple things like wearing
Ans . Self-confidence can be defined as a belief in one’s personal
clean clothes, shaving and bathing along with practicing good
abilities, potentials and strengths. An individual with self-
hygiene regularly boosts one’s self -confidence. It also improves
confidence attains personal and professional goals easily. Let us
one’s perception about him/her over time. discuss some tips on how to build self-confidence:
3. Differentiate between social factor and cultural €€ Remove negative thinking: In order to convert negative
thoughts into positive ones, we have to believe in ourselves
factor in self-confidence. and need to come up with the possibilities of overcoming
Ans. Social factor is a feeling of affection, acceptance, belongingness negative thoughts.
and friendship in the society and family. Cultural factor leads an €€ Positive thinking: Positive thinking helps to enhance your
individual to build his/her confidence level, self-esteem and self- self-confidence because low self-confidence constantly brings
image. Social factor also comprises social experiences which you down and fills your mind with negative thoughts.
involve interaction among individuals to coordinate activities for €€ Staying happy with small things: Several small things can
the accomplishment of individual goals and objectives. make you feel more confident, such as smiling, meditating,
reading and going out.
4. Write positive results of self-management.
€€ Staying clean, hygienic and smart: Self-confidence can be
Ans. The following are the positive results of self-management: improved by enhancing your personal appearance through
€€ Positivity: People with positive attitude take every problem of simple steps like wearing clean clothes, shaving and bathing,
their personal and professional lives positively and try to find and practicing good hygiene regularly.
out the solution with enthusiasm and confidence. €€ Chatting with positive people: Chatting with positive people
€€ Self-awareness: It is the individual’s ability to recognize and gives you an ability to regulate feelings and sentiments, boost
understand his/her strengths and weaknesses in order to confidence, eliminate negative thoughts, and stay positive.
enhance the credibility and leadership quality. 2. Explain self-management and its skills in detail.
€€ Stress management: It is an individual’s ability to control and Ans. Self-management skills are those skills that help an individual
manage any difficult and hard situation. become more productive in his personal as well as professional
€€ Responsible attitude: It is associated with showing acceptable lives. The following are some self-management skills:
behavior in personal and professional lives as well in the €€ Stress management: It is an individual’s ability to control and
society. manage any difficult and hard situation.
€€ Time management: It is a process of planning and scheduling
5. What do you understand by physical awareness in time among different tasks in order to maximize the
self-management? productivity of an individual.
Ans. Physical awareness helps an individual to increase his level of €€ Decision-making: It is a process of making decisions between
physical activity to improve his physical health, to make him two or more things and actions.
more productive and to boost the power of the body and mind. €€ Organizing skills: It is the combination of planning,
It boosts the individual’s level of self-confidence physically. This is prioritizing, motivating and time management skills. It helps
so because it works on the connection between mental as well as an individual to develop a time table, arrange tasks, improve
physical health of an individual. It helps them try challenging and efficiency and set priorities.
difficult situations by developing conscious physical awareness. €€ Physical awareness: It helps an individual to increase his level
of physical activity in order to improve his physical health,
to make him more productive and to boost the power of the
body and mind.

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