PDEV 111 Personal Development

PDEV 111 Personal Development 1. explain that knowing yourself can make you accept your strengths and limitations and dealing with others better; 2. share your unique characteristics, habits and experiences; and, 3. start and maintain a journal. Activity: SELF-CONCEPT INVENTORY Take a look at your own self-concept and answer the following self-concept inventory in your journal. Give yourself a rating using the scale: 0 = very weak; 1 = weak; 2 = somewhat weak or somewhat strong; 3 = strong; 4 = very strong 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. 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. 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. 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. 1 Scoring: Copy this table in your journal. Write your score opposite each number and get the subtotal. Physical appeal 1 2 3 4 Subtotal: Human Relations 5 6 7 8 Subtotal: Intelligence 9 10 11 12 Subtotal: Character 13 14 15 16 Subtotal: Communications 17 18 19 20 Subtotal: Maturity 21 22 23 24 Subtotal: How do you perceive yourself? Look at the results of your self-concept inventory and answer the following questions. 1. In what areas do you consider yourself strong (with score 14-16 or somewhat weak (score of 10-13) and very weak (below 10). 2. Are there qualities you consider as your weakness but other people consider as your strength? What are these? Check with a partner. Example: A lady can say “I`m ugly” yet other consider her very charming. Or conversely, one can have the illusion of saying “I am very intelligent or competent” when most of his ideas sound unreasonable or illogical to most of the people. There is indeed a big difference between what you see in yourself (real self-image) and what is projected in the eyes of the others (your social image). 3. How realistic is your self- image? 4. To what extent does it reflect your real self? Source: Roldan, Amelia S. (2003). On Becoming a Winner: A Workbook on Personality Development and Character Building. AR Skills Development and Management Services (SDMS), Paranaque City, Metro Manila. Reading: SELF-CONCEPT Imagine yourself looking into a mirror. What do you see? Do you see your ideal self or your actual self? Your ideal self is the self that you aspire to be. It is the one that you hope will possess characteristics similar to that of a mentor or some other worldly figure. Your actual self, however, is the one that you actually see. It is the self that has characteristics that you were nurtured or, in some cases, born to have. The actual self and the ideal self are two broad categories of self-concept. Self-concept refers to your 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. 2