KNOWING

ONESELF –
CHARACTERISTIC
S, HABITS, AND
EXPERIENCES
ADOLESCENCE Is the period when a
young individual develops from a child into
an adult.

• What are the changes that happen to an

adolescent?
• CHARACTERISTICS, HABIT, AND
EXPERIENCES
• “SELF” THE FOUNDATION OF ALL HUMAN
BEHAVIOR.
• SELF- ESTEEM - POSITIVE SELF-ESTEEM
AND NEGATIVE SELF-ESTEEM
• SELF- EFFICACY - PERFORMANCE
EXPERIENCES, VICARIOUS
PERFORMANCES, VERBAL PERSUASION,
IMAGINAL PERFORMANCES, AND THE
AFFECT STATE & PHYSICAL SENSATIONS
• SELF AND IDENTITY - SELF AS SOCIAL ACTOR,
SELF AS MOTIVATED AGENT, AND SELF AS
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTHOR
• JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING - DEFINE
THE PROBLEM, IDENTIFY THE CRITERIA
NECESSARY TO JUDGE THE MULTIPLE OPTIONS,
WEIGHT THE CRITERIA, GENERATE
ALTERNATIVES, RATE EACH ALTERNATIVE ON
EACH CRITERION, AND COMPUTE ALL OPTIMAL
DECISION
DEVELOPING THE
WHOLE PERSON –
EVALUATE ONE’S
PERSONALITY
 Developing oneself
holistically may be
the goal of everyone.
•Holistic development the
development of intellectual,
mental, physical, emotional, and
social abilities in a child so that he
or she is capable of facing the
demands and challenges of
ACTIVITY 1:

Let us know more about yourself. Recall your

childhood and teenage days. Share your
activities, thoughts, feelings, strengths,
weaknesses, and other characteristics that
describe you.

Write three or more descriptions for each item.

Do this on a sheet of paper.

DEVELOPMENT CHILDHO ADOLESCEN PLANS TO
ASPECT OD T IMPROVE
YOURSELF

PHYSICAL
ASPECT
(PHYSICAL)

COGNITIVE
ASPECT
(MENTAL)
DEVELOPMENT CHILDHO ADOLESCEN PLANS TO
ASPECT OD T IMPROVE
YOURSELF

PSYCHOSOCI
AL
(EMOTIONAL
& SOCIAL)
SPIRITUAL
ASPECT
• PROCESSING QUESTION:
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
proves your answer?
 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.
•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.
•According to Erik Erikson, adolescence
stage of psychosocial development, also
known as "identity vs role confusion" in
the stage wherein teens need to develop
the sense of sell 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 must be 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 necessary for them to examine all
the circumstances and opportunities so
that they can deal with them calmly.
They must be 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
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
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.
• 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
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.
 Recall some important key points in understanding
developmental change experienced by an adolescent
like you.
COMPLETE THE CROSS WORD
EMOTION
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
COGNITIVE SYMPATHY
CONFUSION
ADOLESCENCE
ACTION
IDENTITY VS. CONFUSION
THOUGHT
SELF-REGULATION
CHALLENGES
VERTICAL
1. GROWTH THROUGH SOCIAL INTERACTION
5. ANYTHING THAT WE DO
6. UNCERTAINTY OR LACK OF
UNDERSTANDING
9. STRANGE AND DIFFICULT EXPERIENCES
BY ADOLESCENTS THAT IS PART OF
DEVELOPING SELF-IDENTITY.
HORIZONTAL
2. A high regard to perceptions of others
3. It gives life to our thought
4. It is a transition between childhood to adulthood
7. Ability to control thought, emotion and behavior
8. The 5th ego of psychosocial development by Erik
Erikson
10. It is an impression to stimulus
ANSWER KEY
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 are walking alone on
the road that is so dark and you heard a
whimper nearby.
Situation 2: You are 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
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.
• 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
3. According to erik erikson9s 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
C. 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
• 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
B. C. Examine the situation D. Make a fast reaction
10. While you are cooking you accidentally touched the hot surface
of the pan. What reaction of your body comes first?
C. Feelings, action, thoughts B. Actions, feelings, thoughts
D. 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 do not 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
• 14. How can you attain your goals in life?
A. Give up when you feel it is 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.