Perdev 2.0

• Aspects of Personal Development

  • Intellectual Self
  • Emotional Self
  • Physical Self
  • Spiritual self
  • Social Self
• Intellectual Self


  The ability to apply logic, knowledge and understanding in your everyday action as a human being
• Emotional Self


  The ability to recognize and understand your emotions and how they impact your behavior
• Physical Self


  Involves the perception and evaluation of one's physical ability and appearance
• Spiritual Self


  You in your most beautiful and powerful form
• Social Self


  Refers to how we perceive ourselves in relation to others
• 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
• Adolescence


  A stage where we tend to build a "socially constructed sense of self", that is our sense of self as influenced by how others view us
• 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
• Johari Window


  A technique that helps people improve self-awareness, interpersonal relationships and opportunity for personal development by giving or receiving feedback on each other's strengths, weaknesses and blind spots
• Arena


  The Known Self. This form of the self is what you and others see in you
• Blind spot


  The Blind Self. These are our actions and behaviors others know about us that we are not aware of
• Façade


  The Hidden Self. In this form of self, we hide things that are private about ourselves
• Unknown


  This form of self is not known to others and not known to self
• Self-Concept


  Our general awareness about ourselves, the image that we have of ourselves
• Self-concept is influenced by our interactions with other people, specifically those who are important to us
• Parts of self-concept


  • Actual self
  • Ideal self
  • Self-esteem
• Adolescence is a unique developmental period
• Adolescence


  A period of transition from childhood to adulthood
• Stages of adolescent development

  • Early adolescence (10-14 years old)
  • Middle adolescence (15-17 years old)
  • Late adolescence (18-24 years old)
• Adolescence is temporarily confined but not fixed
• Adolescence must be conceptualized as a developmental period rather than a temporal snapshot as it is highly variable behaviorally and developmentally
• Early Adolescence (10-14 years old)


  • Beginning of puberty stage
  • Changes in hormones contribute to mood swings
  • Physical growth and changes are vividly significant
  • Curious about body changes which sometimes results in anxiety
  • Values privacy and independence
  • Understanding abstract ideas is not substantial but has eagerness to learn
  • No concrete plans for the future
  • Begins thinking and considering spiritual and moral values
• Middle Adolescence (15-17 years old)

  • Puberty stage is almost complete
  • Development in the physical aspect becomes slower among females but it continues among males
  • Emotionally unstable most of the time which is linked in the social and school environment
  • More self-conscious about how they look or how they appear to other people
  • Spend more time with peers rather than with parents and siblings
  • Enjoy hanging around with friends rather than staying at home with family
  • Period of risk-taking behaviors
  • Find satisfaction in exploring and trying new things
  • Begins to think outside the box and starts to plan for their future
  • Most are very idealistic yet still unable to apply in real life situations
  • Become interested and involved in romantic relationships
  • Want to be involved in a group and seeks more independence
  • Arguments between them and their parents do occur every time the latter impose rules
  • Peak of peer pressure
  • Become conscious of their community and get more concerned for the well-being of others
• Late Adolescence (18-24 years old)


  • Fewer to almost complete physical developments
  • Considers mental or cognitive growth
  • Maturity becomes evident with regard to decision making
  • Become less impulsive, more critical and rational
  • Have better control of their emotions
  • Can now identify their own core values
  • Start to value family relationship
  • Becomes emotionally stable
  • Life-plans are more specific
  • Faith in God is stronger
• Emerging Adulthood is a developmental stage proposed by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
• Emerging Adulthood is rooted from Erik Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development in the 20th century
• According to Arnett, adolescence is no longer the primary period of identity exploration, instead it is the emerging adulthood stage
• Adolescents


  (According to RA 10354) People aged 10-19 years
• Youth


  People aged 15–24 years
• Young people


  People aged 10-24 years
• The Department of Health (DOH) and the Philippine Pediatric Society (PPS) divides the adolescence period into: Early adolescence (10-13 years old), Middle adolescence (14-16 years old), and Late adolescence (17-19 years old)
• Adolescence is rooted in the Latin verb adolescere which denotes "to grow" or "to grow to maturity"
• Adolescents experience hormonal changes and puberty, new and complex sensations and emotions, and bursts of emotional and physiological brain development
• Adolescents also experience evolving cognitive ability and context-influenced emotional impulse control
• Cognitive ability enables adolescents to perform mental activities such as problem solving and learning
• Physical identity


  An individual's awareness of his/her own appearance
• Adolescence stage is a milestone to all individuals since it serves as the metamorphosis in becoming an adult
• Early Adolescence (10-14 years old)


  • Beginning stages of puberty where both sexes experience significant physical growth and increased sexual interest