GMNNHS - SENIOR HIGH

SCHOOLPERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
LESSON 1: KNOWING AND
UNDERSTANDING ONESELF DURING MIDDLE
AND LATE ADOLESCENCE

SHERYLL A. SAMSON
Subject Teacher
 Learning Competencies
1. Explain that knowing oneself can
make a person accept his/her
strengths and
limitations in dealing with others better.

2. Share his/her unique characteristics,

habits, and experiences
Knowing and Understanding Oneself during Middle and
Late Adolescence
Take a look at your own self-concept and
answer the following self-concept
inventory in your notebook. Give
yourself a rating using the scale: 0 =
very weak; 1 = weak; 2 = somewhat
weak or somewhat strong; 3 = strong; 4
= very strong
Activity: SELF-CONCEPT INVENTORY
1. I have strong sex appeal.
2. I am proud of my physical figure.
3. I am physically attractive and beautiful/handsome.
4. I exude with charm and poise.
5. I am easy to get along with.
6. I can adjust to different people and different
situations.
7. I am approachable; other people are at ease and
comfortable with me.
Activity: SELF-CONCEPT INVENTORY
8. I am lovable and easy to love.
9. I am a fast learner, can understand with one
instruction.
10. I am intelligent.
11. I have special talents and abilities.
12. I can easily analyze situations and make right
judgments.
13. I can be trusted in any transaction.
14. I have a clean conscience and carry no guilty
feeling.
Activity: SELF-CONCEPT INVENTORY
15. I have integrity and good reputation.
16. My friends and classmates can look up to me as
a model worth emulating.
17. I can express my ideas without difficulty.
18. I talk in a persuasive manner that I can easily get
people to accept what I say.
19. I can express my ideas in writing without
difficulty.
20. I am a good listener.
Activity: SELF-CONCEPT INVENTORY
21. I am emotionally stable and not easily rattled
when faced with trouble.
22. I am logical and rational in my outlook and
decisions.
23. I feel and act with confidence.
24. I am a mature person.
Scoring: Copy this table in your paper. Write your score
opposite each number and get the subtotal. In what areas do
you consider yourself strong (with score 14-16 or somewhat
weak (score of 10-13) and very weak (below 10).
Physical Human Relations Intelligence
appeal 5 9
1 6 10
2 7 11
3 8 12
4 Subtotal: Subtotal:
Subtotal:

Character Communications Maturity

13 17 21
14 18 22
15 19 23
16 20 24
Subtotal: Subtotal: Subtotal:
 KNOWING
YOURSELF
 IDENTIFY
 ASK THE
PEOPLE
YOUR
AROUND
STRENGTHS
YOU
AND
WEAKNESSESS

Knowing and Understanding Oneself during Middle and

Late Adolescence
Areas of development
- Physical
- cognitive
- psychological & social

Knowing and Understanding Oneself during Middle and

Late Adolescence
 Area of Early Adolescence Mid-Adolescence
Development (10-15 years) (14-17 years)

Physical  Rapid growth  Growth slows down

Cognitive  Developing new thinking skills Tend to think about the

(possibilities, logic, abstracts) future (what if)
 Practicing new thinking skills Increased concern for
through humor others
 Arguing with parents

Psychological &  Socialization is based on Cross-gender friendships

Social commonalities (same gender Helps in developing an
friends) individual identity separate
 Romantic crushes are common from that of a child in a
family
Self - is the union of element namely:
Body, thoughts, feeling or emotions, and
sensations that constitute the
individuality and identity of a person.
Look at the mirror. What can you
see?
 The self
separate, independent, unique
from others
Ideal Self Actual
Self
Your image or
aspirations of Your present
what you self that you
want to see everyday
become
Knowing and Understanding Oneself during Middle and
Late Adolescence
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Self-concept
How well do you
know yourself?

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 Self-concept
refers to the awareness of yourself. It is
the construct that negotiates these two
selves. In other words, it connotes first the
identification of the ideal self as separate
from others, and second, it encompasses
all the behaviors evaluated in the actual
self that you engage in to reach the ideal
self.
According to Erik Erikson…
The main social task of the adolescent
is the search for a unique identity-- the
ability to answer the question
“who am I?”
ACTUAL
Self
The actual self is built on self knowledge.
The actual self is who we actually are.
It is how we think, how we feel, look and
act.
The actual self can be seen by others but
because we have no way of truly knowing
how others view us, the actual self is our
self image.
 It derives from our
social interactions of
society that provide
insight into how others
react to us.
Self-knowledge
Knowing and Understanding Oneself during Middle and
Late Adolescence
IDEAL Self
The ideal self, on the other hand, is how we
want to be.
It is an idealized image that we have developed
over time, based on what we have learned and
experienced.
The ideal self could include components of what
our parents have taught us, what we admire in
others, what our society promotes, and what we
think is in our best interest.
Alignment is important. If the way
that I am (the actual self) is aligned
with the way that I want to be (the
ideal self), then I will feel a sense of
mental well-being or peace of mind. If
the way that I am is not aligned with
how I want to be, the incongruence,
or lack of alignment , will result in
mental distress or anxiety.
Personal Effectiveness means making
use of all the personal resources –
talents, skills, energy and time, to
enable you to achieve life goals.
Experience includes knowledge and skills
that we acquire in the process of cognitive
and practical activities.

Knowledge is required for setting goals,

defining an action plan to achieve them and
risk assessment.

Skills also determine whether real actions

are performed in accordance with the plan.
 Skills
That Will Greatly Increase
The Efficiency of A Person
1.Determination
2.Self Confidence
3.Persistence
4.Managing stress
5.Problem-solving skills
6.Creativity
7.Generating ideas
1.Determination
it allows you to focus only on
achieving a specific goal without
being distracted by less important
things or spontaneous desires. It
may be developed with the help
of self discipline exercise.
2. Self-confidence
it appears in the process of
personal development, as a result
of getting aware of yourself , your
actions and their consequences.
Self confidence is manifested in
speech, appearance, dressing,
gait and physical condition.
3. Persistence
it makes you keep moving
forward regardless of emerging
obstacles-problems, laziness, bad
emotional state, etc. It reduces
the costs of overcoming
obstacles. It can also be
developed with the help of self-
4. Managing stress
it helps combat stress that arises in
daily life from the environment and
other people. Stress arises from the
uncertainty in an unknown situation
when a lack of information creates the
risk of negative consequences of your
actions. It increases efficiency in the
actively changing environment.
5. Problem solving skills
they help cope with the problems
encountered with a lack of
experience. It increases efficiency by
adopting new ways of achieving goals
when obtaining a new experience
6. Creativity
it allows you to find extraordinary
ways to carry out a specific action
that no one has tried to use. It can
lead to a decrease or an increase of
costs, but usually the speed of action
is greatly increase when using
creative tools.
7. Generatings ideas
it helps you achieve goals using new ,
original, unconventional ideas. Idea is a
mental image of an object formed by the
human mind, which can be changed before
being implemented in the real world. For
generating ideas you can use a method of
mental maps, which allows you to
materialize, visualize and scrutinize all your
ideas which in turn contributes to the
emergence of new ideas.
7 Reasons Why We
Should Put Our
Talents, Gifts or
Strengths to Use
Other people can benefit
from them
our gifts or talents are
purposely created not just
for ourselves but to help
those around us.
Other lives may change
because of our talents
Find our path and put our
talents to work
We may change someone’s
life just because we exercise
our gift
Leads to a More
Satisfying Life
people who use their
strengths and talents
everyday are six tines more
likely to be engaged on the
job
We Can Make Money Out
of Them
Our talents can help us earn
money. With proper
development and use, they
can even offer us richness
beyond imagination-in all
aspects of our lives.
Let Us Leave a Lasting
Impression to People
if we want to leave a lasting
imprint to people we
encounter, use whatever we
have to offer, these are our
gifts and talents.
Leads to Faster Growth
and Development
when a person positively
monitors his performance
and look for ways to improve
his strengths, he will
develop faster than focusing
on his weaknesses.
Show aprreciation to the
giver
when we are using the
talents given to us, we are
opening more doors and
windows for more gifts.
 You can be a
better version
of yourself

Knowing and Understanding Oneself during Middle and

Late Adolescence
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