Republic of the Philippines
Region III- Central Luzon
Department of Education
Schools Division of Tarlac Province
CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL
SENIOR HIGH DEPARTMENT
Capas,Tarlac
Personal
Development
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Knowing and Understanding Oneself during
Middle and Late Adolescence
Personal Development
Quarter 1 – Module 1:
Knowing and Understanding Oneself during Middle and Late Adolescence
Activity: “Sip and Share!”
Direction: In the spaces indicated by numbers, write down the following. Use a separate sheet of
paper for your answer.
1. What is your full name?
2. What are the things in yourself you are proudest of?
3. What are the positive words your family and friends used to describe you?
4. What two personal goals you have that you already achieved?
5. What are the two things you considered as greatest achievements in your life?
6. What good qualities you see in yourself that you want the whole world to know?
7. What experience you have that had a positive impact in your life?
8. What are the two skills you have that you want to share with other people?
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Activity: “I Am What I Am!”
Direction: Describe yourself in terms of the following aspects. Write your response in the spaces
indicated by numbers. Use a separate sheet of paper for your answers.
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1. Intellectual Self: include a description about your reasoning ability, problem solving skills,
specific areas you are good at or the wisdom you gained from your experience.
2. Emotional Self: describe how you feel most of the time, feelings you don’t want to experience
and the emotions you want to improve. You may include an experience that makes you feel sad,
happy, angry, etc.
3. Physical Self: describe your physical image. You may include adjectives describing your
complexion, height, weight, hair, or any body parts that you like the most.
4. Spiritual Self – write a word or a phrase about your over-all spiritual development. Describe
your spiritual connection to your religion and your spiritual relationship with other people.
5. Social Self – include a description on how well you get along with other people with different
types of attitudes and personality. Describe the kind of person you are when you are with your
closest friends, teachers, or your family.
Guide Questions:
1. As you accomplished the “Sip and Share” and “I Am What I Am” activities, what have you
realized?
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2. Do these activities remind you of your unique identity as a person? How?
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3. Do you consider yourself as a unique individual? How will you prove it?
Understanding the “Sense of Self”
Knowing and understanding oneself during middle and late adolescence is quite hard at
times. As we transition towards becoming an adult, we are expected to be responsible, independent
or self-reliant and depend less on our parents. Sometimes we are being surrounded with too much
pressure and expectations on how we should behave and act on certain situations. 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.
Who Am I? – A question that leads to a better Self-Awareness
Adolescence is a stage where we may increasingly ask, “Who Am I?”. Don’t be bothered If you
find yourself asking this question. You are on the right track! It is a normal part of the process that
you need to go through as you advance to the next milestone – the adulthood. Once you have a
concrete understanding of your entire being, your personality, strengths and weaknesses, you may
emerge as a resilient individual who is prepared to be a responsible adult.
Self-Awareness
Once in our life, someone might have said to us “Be yourself!” or “Be true to yourself!”
Actually, this is a very great advice. However, it is not as easy as it may seem to stay true to
ourselves if we do not know exactly who we really are.
Self-Awareness is a state of having the knowledge about our existence as unique individuals
who are able to recognize our values, beliefs, traits, behaviors and feelings. The moment we are
aware about ourselves, our strengths and weaknesses, only then we can experience ourselves as
unique and separate individual beings. If we manage to become aware of who we are, we will
become empowered to making changes by building our areas of strengths and at the same time by
acknowledging areas of weaknesses where we would like to make improvements. Furthermore, Self-
awareness is being significantly conscious of what we are good at while recognizing our flaws,
limitations and imperfections.
The Johari Window
Self-awareness is a never-ending journey as there are still things that we do not know much
about ourselves. Our awareness of ourselves can be improved by considering how others view us,
their opinions about us and how they describe us as a person. It is true that sometimes, we don’t
realize our behavior, good qualities and potentialities unless someone tells us.
Johari Window is a technique that helps people improve self-
awareness, interpersonal relationships and opportunity for personal
development by giving or receiving feedbacks on each other’s
strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. This was developed by
American Psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham in 1955. The
name “Johari” is formed from combining their first names.
Basically, Johari Window has four quadrants or windows that
provide the four basic forms of the self. These are the following:
1. Arena – or the Known Self. This form of the self is what you and others see in you. Things we
know about ourselves and others know about us, like that of the talents and skills or even
our weaknesses that we know about ourselves and others know about us.
2. Blind Spot – or the Blind Self. These are our actions and behaviors others know about us
that we are not aware of. These can be positive or negative and may include hidden strengths
and potentialities or areas for improvement.
3. Façade – or the Hidden Self. In this form of self, we hide things that are private about
ourselves. These may include feelings, ambitions and opinions that we choose to hide due to
fear of negative reactions from others. Reasons for hiding may be because we do not want
our weaknesses to be exposed.
4. Unknown – This form of self is not known to others and not known to self. This includes
skills, behaviors, undiscovered talents, etc. that are unknown to us and to others. If we
explore and get ourselves involve in new activities with new groups of people will help us
increase our self-awareness.
Self-Concept
According to Carl Rogers, a humanist psychologist. 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. Carl Rogers believed that our self-
concept is made up of three different parts, the actual self, the ideal self and the self-esteem.
The moment we go to school, to the mall or to a birthday party, we try looking ourselves in
the mirror to check our appearance. What do you see as you look at yourself in the mirror? Do you
see your actual self? Or your ideal self?
Our Actual Self is 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. On the other hand, our 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. Now, what about self-esteem? Self-esteem is 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.
Modified FACT or BLUFF: Write FACT if the statement contains an underlined word that
is factual and correct. If it’s bluff, write the correct answer instead. Use a separate sheet of
paper for your answers.
_________ 1. Blind Spots are our actions and behaviors others know about us that we are not aware
of. These can be positive or negative and may include our hidden strengths and
potentialities or areas for improvement.
_________ 2. Arena is what we and others see in us. Things we know about ourselves and others
know about us, like that of the talents and skills or even our weaknesses that we know
about ourselves and others know about us.
_________ 3. The Known Self is our general awareness about ourselves, the image that we have of
ourselves.
_________ 4. According to Bo Sanchez, moviegoers are the people who only watch, admire and
criticize the movie of their lives. They do nothing else. They are the ones who have
absolutely no control of their lives except to just comment, react and criticize.
_________ 5. Sense of Self is the actual genuine information that we have about our motivations,
strengths or weaknesses.
_________ 6. Carl Rogers believed that our self-concept is made up of three different parts, the actual
self, the ideal self and the self-esteem.
_________ 7. Ideal Self is 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.
_________ 8. Actual Self is the self that we aspire to be. The one we hope will possess the
characteristics that we really want to have.
_________ 9. Self-knowledge is 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.
_________ 10. Façade is a form of self that hides things that are private about ourselves. These may
include feelings, ambitions and opinions that we choose to hide due to fear of negative
reactions from others.
_________ 11. Physical Self is an aspect of self that refers to how well you get along with other people
with different types of attitudes and personality.
_________ 12. Intellectual Self is an aspect of self that involves your reasoning ability, problem
solving skills, specific areas you are good at or the wisdom you gained from your
experience.
_________ 13. Socially constructed sense of self is our sense of self as influenced by how others view
us.
_________ 14. Self-esteem is a state of having the knowledge about our existence as unique
individuals who are able to recognize our values, beliefs, traits, behaviors and feelings.
_________ 15. Self-concept is a technique that helps people improve self-awareness, interpersonal
relationships and opportunity for personal development by giving or receiving feedbacks
on each other’s strengths, weaknesses and blind spots
