LESSON 1: INTRODUCTION TO PERSONALITY

• Personality - the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character.
• Personality - It refers to the enduring characteristics and behavior that comprise a person’s unique adjustment to life, including major traits, interests, drives, values, self-concept, abilities, and emotional patterns. 
• Personality - Various theories explain the structure and development of personality in different ways, but all agree that personality helps determine behavior. 
• Social work - a profession that is primarily concerned with organized social service activity
• Social work - aimed to facilitate and strengthen basic social relationships and the mutual adjustment between individuals and their social environment for the good of the individual and of society by the use of social work methods.
• Social work - It is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people.
• The principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversities are central to social work.
• social work - engages people and structures to address life challenges and enhance wellbeing.
• Social worker - It is a practitioner who by accepted academic training and social work professional experience possesses the skill to achieve the objectives as defined and set by the social work profession.
• Loob - It talks about the person’s ‘relational will’ , that is his will towards his kapwa. 
• Loob talks about the person’s ‘relational will’ , that is his will towards his kapwa. 
• This concept is fundamental because the Filipino virtues are mostly compound words which say something about the kind of loób that a person has.
• KALOOBAN INTERLINK DIFFERENT DOMINANT ELEMENTS:

  • Malay
  • Dama
  • Ugali
  • Anyo
• • Malay (Consciousness)
  • Pananaw
  • Saysay
  • Isip
• • Dama
  • Kahulugan
  • Habag
  • Damay
• • Ugali
  • Maganda/Mabuti
  • Kaaya-aya
  • Kahanga-hanga
• • Anyo
  • Kilos
  • Gawi
  • Hilig
• PANININDIGAN  INTERLINK DIFFERENT DOMINANT ELEMENTS:

  • Makatwiran
  • Makatarungan
  • Mapagkatiwalaan
  • Makatotohanan
• FUNCTIONAL RELATIONS OF THE DIFFERENT ASAL-BASED IDEALS OF PANININDIGAN:

  • Kabutihang-asal
  • Kagandahang-asal
  • Kalinisang-asal
• KARANGALAN BASIC SUB-CONCEPTS

  • Pitagan
  • Kawanggawa
  • Kapurihan
• MALASAKIT ELEMENTS

  • Pagkabahala
  • Pananagutan
  • Pagkamalingap
• Kapwa - this word is literally translated as ‘other’ or ‘other person’ but it is in a way untranslatable into English. 
• Kapwa - embedded in an entirely different worldview and web of meanings unique to Philippine culture and history—namely, a Southeast Asian tribal and animist culture mixed with Spanish Catholicism. 
• Kapwa - It is tribal and Christian at the same time. Therefore been translated by local scholars as ‘shared self’, ‘shared identity’, or ‘self-in-the-other’. I use ‘together with the person’.
• Kapwa - the unity of the ‘self’ and ‘others.’ 
• Kapwa - is a recognition of shared identity, an inner self shared with others. 
• Pagkakaisa - ‘the highest level of interpersonal interaction possible’ and ‘the full realization’ of a relationship with the kapwa.
• pagkakaisa - The Christian tradition moves it towards a communio personarum, a communion of persons
• Kagandahang-loob - This word is literally translated as ‘beauty-of-will’.
• Kagandahang-loob - In this context is determined by one’s relationship towards the kapwa. Someone who has an affective concern for others and the willingness to help them in times of need.
• Kagandahang-loob - It is best understood through the paradigmatic example of a mother’s love and concern for her child, most especially during the child’s weakness in infancy.
• Utang-na-loob - This word is literally translated as ‘debt-of-will’.
• Utang-na-loob - It is the natural response to kagandahang-loób.
• Utang-na-loob - It is the self-imposed obligation to give back the same kind of kagandahang-loób to the person who has shown it to you.
• • When utang-na-loób is returned ‘with interest’, that is more than what is due, it can bring about a circular dynamic between two persons where the one who previously showed kagandahang-loób is now the one with utang- na-loób, and then vice versa;
• Utang-na-loob - it continues to alternate and strengthen the relationship in the process.
• Utang-na-loob - This is where kapwa naturally develops into mutually sacrificial friendships.
• Pakikiramdam - The closest translation might be ‘relational sensitivity’ or ‘empathy’.
• Pakikiramdam - It is about being skilled in reading the other person’s feelings and correctly guessing his inner state. 
• Pakikiramdam - It requires receptivity to many non-verbal cues, such as subtle facial expressions, tones of voice and bodily gestures.