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Understanding Self

The document discusses self-understanding, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness in recognizing one's thoughts, actions, and identity. It outlines the components of self-concept, including self-image, self-esteem, and ideal self, while also exploring personality traits and their impact on behavior. Additionally, it highlights the significance of character, attitude, and behavior in shaping an individual's self-concept and offers a self-awareness worksheet for personal development.

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Understanding Self

The document discusses self-understanding, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness in recognizing one's thoughts, actions, and identity. It outlines the components of self-concept, including self-image, self-esteem, and ideal self, while also exploring personality traits and their impact on behavior. Additionally, it highlights the significance of character, attitude, and behavior in shaping an individual's self-concept and offers a self-awareness worksheet for personal development.

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Understanding

self
Prepared by:
Love Joy T. Mortola
 Self-understanding
is the awareness of and ability to
understand one’s own thoughts and actions.
 The
key to self-knowledge is continuous self-awareness. Self-
awareness is merely understanding who we are.
 Toattain the insight in your attitudes, motives, defenses,
reactions, weaknesses and strengths.
 Understanding self represents the sum total of people’s
conscious perception of their identity as distinct from others.
It is not a static phenomenon but continues to develop and
change throughout lives.
 Understanding the self equips individuals with making more
effective career and life choice, the ability to lead, guide and
inspire with authenticity.
SELF-CONCEPT
Who are you? What makes you “you”? You might
answer with I’m a daughter, or I’m a student or
maybe, I’m a believer, I’m a good friend or a
sister…
According to Ackerman, these responses come
from your internal sense of who you are. This
sense is developed early in life, but it goes
through constant evaluation and adjustment
throughout the lifespan. This sense of self has a
 Self-conceptis the image that we have of ourselves. It
is our personal knowledge of who we are,
encompassing all of our thoughts and feelings about
ourselves physically, personally and socially.
 Self-concept
also includes our knowledge of how we
behave, our capabilities and our individual
characteristics.
 For
example, beliefs such as “I am a good friend” or “I
am a kind person” are part of an overall self-concept.
 To be aware of oneself is to have a concept of oneself.
Self-concepts are really all positive or all negative:
Someone may have both positive and some
negative self-concepts in different domains.
Some examples of positive self-concepts include:
1. A student sees herself as an intelligent person.
2. A student views himself as a diligent and
responsible person.
On the flip side, these people could have negative self-
concepts like:
1. A student sees herself as stupid and slow
2. A student views himself as lazy and irresponsible.
Components of self-concept
1. Self-image:
The way we see ourselves- includes what we know about ourselves
physically, our social roles and our personality traits.
Self-image doesn’t always match reality. Some individuals hold an inflated
perception of one or more of their characteristics. These inflated
perceptions may be positive or negative, and an individual may have a
more positive view of certain aspects of the self and a more negative view
of others.
2. Self-Esteem:
The value we place upon ourselves.
How much you like, accept or value yourself, which can be impacted by a
number of factors including how others see you, how you think you
compare to others, and your role in society.
3. Ideal Self:

The person or self we would like to be. What


you wish you were really like.
It is an idealized version of yourself created out
of what you have learned from your life
experiences, the demands of society and what
you admire in your role models.
Other self-concept theories
According to social psychologist Henri
Tajfel’s social identity theory, self-concept is
composed of two key parts:
Personal Identity: The traits and other
characteristics that make you unique.
Social Identity: Who you are based on
your membership in social groups, such as
sports teams, religions, political parties or
social class.
Psychologist bruce a. bracken- believed self-
concept was multidimensional and could be broken
down into six independent traits:

Academic: Your success or failure in school


Affect: Your awareness of emotional states
Competence: Your ability to meet basic
needs
Family: How well you work in your family unit
Physical: How you feel about your looks,
health, physical condition and overall
appearance
OTHER CONCEPTS RELATED TO SELF
Self-awareness: Involves being aware of
different aspects of the self including traits,
behaviors and feelings.
Self-confidence: feeling of trust in own
abilities, qualities, capacities and judgment.
Self-efficacy: Individual’s belief in his or her
capacity to execute behaviors necessary to
meet the challenges ahead of us and
complete a task successfully.
Personality
Is something that people tend to think a lot about.
When we meet new people, whether through work,
school, or social events. It is often their personality
on which we immediately focus. Whether they are
nice, helpful, outgoing, or shy are just a few of the
things that we assess as we evaluate the people
around us.
One effective way to understand ourselves is to know
our personality. But what do we mean when we say
personality? And why is it necessary to know what
type of personality we have for us to understand
The word personality itself stems from the
latin word persona, which refers to a theatrical
mask worn by performers in order to either
project different roles or disguise their
identities.

Personality refers to individual differences in


characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and
behaving that make a person unique. It is
believed that personality arises from within
the individual ad remains fairly consistent
Personality makes us who we are:

It influences nearly every aspect of our lives including


what we choose to do for a living, how we interact
with our families, and our choices of friends and
romantic partners.
Personality traits

People have unique personalities that make


them who they are. There are many different
types of personality traits, including some
that are positive and some that are negative.
Personality traits reflect people’s
characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings
and behaviors.
POSITIVE PERSONALITY
TRAITS
People have unique personalities that
make them who they are. There are
many different types of personality traits,
including some that are positive and
some that are negative. Personality traits
reflect people’s characteristic patterns of
thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
Positive personality traits
Drive, determination and persistence
can help keep a student going no
matter what.
Courage and confidence can help a
student choose to do what is right in
tough situations.
A student who is optimistic tends to
look for the bright side of situations
Negative personality traits

Being quick to anger will damage


relationships and turn people away.
Those who are unfriendly are often viewed
as disrespectful and/ or uninterested in
connecting with other people.
Being full of laziness and excuses for falling
to meet deadlines is sure to suffer
consequences in the end.
Why learn more about your
personality?
 Itanswers the question of WHY: it can help you better
understand yourself and other people. You can
understand why you think, feel and act the way you
do.
 Ithelps you figure out HOW: it can help you find
better you find better answers to question like, “how
can I be happier”, how do I find a career I’m
passionate about”, how can I better communicate
with my friends and classmates”, how do I stay
motivated?”, or “how can I make better decisions.”
Personality + Situation = Behavior: Knowing
your personality and reading about different
situations, you can start to predict your own
behavior then you can change your
behavior.

It’s
about YOU, and it’s also about THEM: It
can tell you a lot about yourself and you will
understand better the people around you.
Character
Objective: Represents who we actually are.
Indicates the traits of a person which are
hidden from sight. It includes traits that
reveal themselves only in specific- and often
uncommon- circumstances, traits like
honesty, virtue and kindness.
Expression of inner true traits of a person.
Attitude
Standpoint or the opinion one has towards
something. It represents an individual’s
degree of likes or dislikes for a particular
thing, topic, person, place or situation.
Behavior or way of response or thinking in
any particular situation of an individual
shows the attitude. It keeps changing
according to the situation.
Behavior
What we do. What a person does.
The way a person acts or reacts to other
persons and their surroundings in general.
It is about how a person expresses himself
or herself.
It is based on the situation and therefore
changes a lot.
Everyone has their own self-concept.
Self-concept can be both positive and
negative.
Knowing one’s personality is essential in
understanding the self.
Everyone has unique personalities.
Character, attitude, behavior and
personality are different from each other.
To be aware of oneself is to have a concept
of oneself.
Self-awareness worksheet
 Focuses on discovering: WHO AM I?- it is an all-encompassing
worksheet that addresses talents, qualities, values, perception
and self-reflection.
 Self-awareness and or Self Discovery is about knowing and
understanding:
 Your beliefs and principles
 What you value and what is important to you
 What motivates you
 Your own emotions
 Your thinking patterns
 Your tendencies to react to certain situations
 What you want out of life
Who I am?
To get you thinking about your personal development plan
and your mission statement, spend some time
contemplating the following:

TALENTS:
1. What are your greatest talents or skills?
2. Which
of your talents or skills gives you the greatest
sense of pride of satisfaction?
3. Which talents or skills do you admire most in others?
4. What talent or skill do you wish to develop for yourself?
TRAITS / QUALITIES
 1. What are your five greatest strengths?
 2.What do you feel are your two biggest
weaknesses?
 3. What are your best qualities/characteristics?
 4. What qualities do you wish you had?
 5. What qualities or traits do you most admire
in others?
 6.What behaviors, traits or qualities do you
want other people to admire in you?

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