KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING ONESELF DURING MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE

Personal Development

Learning Objectives:

• Explain that knowing oneself can make a person accept his/her strengths and limitations and dealing with others better (EsP-PD11/12KO-Ia-1.1).
• Share his/her unique characteristics, habits, and experiences through poem, drawing, or actions. (EsPPD11/12KO-Ia-1.2).

Why is knowing yourself so important?

Knowing and understanding yourself part would help you to make much better decisions.

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It will improve your decision making habits, in setting and reaching appropriate goals and altogether living more productively and more..

Adolescence is a stage wherein we tend to build a “socially constructed sense of self”, that is our sense of self as influenced by how others view us. This socially constructed sense of self is the reason why we tend to seek approval and acceptance of other people for a purpose of attaining sense of belongingness.

Self-Awareness

A state of having the knowledge about our existence as unique individuals who are able to recognize our values, beliefs, traits, behaviors and feelings.

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Self-awareness is being significantly conscious of what we are good at while recognizing our flaws, limitations and imperfections.

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Self-Concept

Self-concept is our general awareness about ourselves, the image that we have of ourselves.

This image is influenced by our interactions with other people specifically those who are important to us.

Actual Self

• Our self-image, the one we actually see including attributes like our physical characteristics, personality traits and social roles. It is how we think and feel, behave or act.
• Our actual self is built on self-knowledge, which is the actual genuine information that we have about our motivations, strengths or weaknesses.

Ideal Self

• Ideal Self is the self that we aspire to be. The one we hope will possess the characteristics that we really want to have, like that of the image above

Self-esteem

• Our overall subjective sense of value or personal worth. That is how we feel about our strengths and weaknesses.
• If we have healthy self-esteem, we feel good about ourselves.
• If we have low self-esteem, we have the tendency to put a little value on our ideas and opinions. Likewise, if we have low self-esteem, we might constantly worry about being not good enough.

• Moviegoers – the people who only watch, admire and criticize the movie of their lives. They are the ones who have absolutely no control of their lives except to just comment, react and criticize.
• Actors – they do not just watch the movie of their lives, they act and can control how they portray the character. However, they don’t have the control over the script.
• Actor-Scriptwriters –do not only watch, do not only act, but they actually create the whole movie and determine what they will say, what they will do and how they will end the movie. They realize they have the huge control over their life and see to it that the movie will turn out to be amazing and beautiful.