PERDEV

• Personality

  Greek word “Persona” which means “Mask”
• Personality

  • Puts up a show where actors donned masks to portray different personalities or themselves
• Personality

  • pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a person’s behavior (Feist, Feist, & Roberts, 2013)
• Personality

  • “psychological qualities that contribute to an individual’s enduring and distinctive patterns of thinking, feelings, and behaving” (Cervone and Pervin, 2014, p.8)
• Enduring

  • the qualities are at least somewhat consistent across time and situations of one’s life.
• Distinctive

  • personality features differentiate persons from one another.
• Personality

  • a set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that are organized and relatively enduring and that influence his or her interactions with, and adaptations to intrapsychic, physical and social environment. (Larsen & Buss, 2005, p. 4)
• Self

  • constitutes an individual's personal identity in typical ways. it encompasses one's body, feelings, emotions, thoughts, values, and relationships.
  • can be defined as the individual as a whole
• Psychological mechanisms

  • refers to the process of personality.
• Origin of Personality

  Nature : inherited characteristics

  Nurture: environment
• Personality Types

  • an integrated collection of personality traits that tend to characterize an individual.
• Examples of tools:

  1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

  2. The Enneagram: an Asian tool for knowing oneself and one’s personality type.
• • In the Asian view, knowing oneself includes becoming aware of one’s personality (ego/self) and one’s Higher Self (one’s psyche/soul).
  • In Asian Psychology, states that one must first develop the ego (one’s personality) to become a unique self or personality to become one’s true self, or the bigger/Higher Self, or the Whole Self
• Johari Window (Disclosure/Feedback model of Self Awareness)

  by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham

  • a model that gives a visual representation of one’s level of self-awareness, personal development, and relationships.
• OPEN SELF

  • Information about you that both you and others know
• BLIND SELF

  • Information about you that you don’t know but others do know
• HIDDEN SELF

  • Information about you that you know but others don’t know
• UNKNOWN SELF

  • Information about you that neither you nor others know
• Gordon Allport

  • a psychologist who supported the uniqueness of each individual.
  • He focused on understanding and measuring personality in terms of traits, which are the enduring and consistent dispositions of human beings.
  • He identified around 200 traits that guide people’s behavior.
• Raymond Cattell

  • conducted researches on personality traits and proposed that personality is made up of 16 basic dimensions or the 16 Personality Test
  • these 16 traits are the source or core of all human personality.
  • narrowed down Gordon's 200 traits
• Traits

  • reaction tendencies that are somewhat permanent parts of the personality.
• Robert McCrae and Paul Costa

  • narrowed down the 16 PT into five categories or the “BIG Five”.
• O – Openness

  C – Conscientiousness

  E – Extraversion

  A– Agreeableness

  N - Neuroticism (Emotional Instability)
• Openness

  • people who love to step out of their comfort zone
• Conscientiousness

  • people who are organized, achievement-focused, self-disciplined.
• Extraversion

  • Fun-loving, talkative, sociable, active, passionate
• Agreeableness

  • good-natured, trusting, generous, and soft-hearted
• Neuroticism

  • anxious, emotional, vulnerable, self-conscious
• Cognitive/Mental Development

  • a person’s intellectual abilities as shown in his/her thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, and values
  • The development of one’s mental abilities affects how one makes decisions, remembers details, and solves problems.
• Physiological/Physical Development


  • Physical changes in the body as well as in the senses and changes in skills related to movement
  • A notable change in height, body mass, or even hair growth
• Components of Attitude

  • Affective: an individual's feelings and emotions about a certain situation
  • Behavioral: the way attitude influences behavior
  • Cognitive: belief and knowledge about the object
• Inner Blossoming is a process of Personal Development developed by Maria Lourdes Llaneza-Ramos, who developed an Asian transpersonal approach to growing the self
• Spiritual Development is defined as discovering oneself beyond the ego known as the soul, spirit, or the "inner essence" that is often disregarded or taken for granted
• Spiritual Development permits people to connect with a higher power that is called by many names like God, the Buddha, or Allah
• SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

  • our inborn capacity to relate to others, connect, and feel belongingness.
  • As a person grows, there is a desire to be part of different groups and be recognized. However, difficult interactions could constrict one's natural openness toward others.
  • Starts with our mother
• ATTITUDE

  • A relatively enduring organization of beliefs, feelings, and behavioral tendencies towards significant objects, groups, events (Hogg & Vaughan (2005).
  • how one views what happens, how one feels about the experience.
• Affective

  • an individual’s feelings and emotions about a certain situation.
  • Feelings and emotion

  Ex: I am disgusted by snake.
• Behavioral

  • the way attitude influences behavior.
  • The way attitude influences behavior.

  Ex: Whenever I see snakes, Irun as fast as I can.
• 3. Cognitive

  • belief and knowledge about the object.
  • Belief & knowledge about something.

  Ex: Snakes are dangerous.
• Maria Lourdes Llaneza-Ramos

  • She developed an Asian Transpersonal approach to growing the self.
  • She used the lotus flower as the symbol of the self. (Persons development and the lotus flower both came from the mud)
  • She believes that “one has an inner garden of dreams and aspirations that need to be cultivated into a bigger and fuller self.”