euthenics

• Personality


  • Comes from the latin word "persona", which means,"mask"
  • Combination of trait patterns that play a vital role in the behavior
  • Comprised of dynamic patter of behavior, consistent set of thoughts and feelings that makes one distinct
  • Generally a summation of overt and covert behavior
  • Combination of the physiological, moral and spiritual, psychological and emotional, intellectual facets
  • Conglomeration of an individual's thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes, intelligence, interests and abilities
• Personality Development


  Development entails progression either quantitatively or qualitatively
• Influences on Personality

  • Psychodynamic Theory
  • Behaviorism
  • Humanistic
  • Trait Theory
• Psychodynamic Theory


  Developed by Sigmund Freud, personality is made up of three major systems – ID, EGO, SUPEREGO
• Behaviorism


  • The word "Behaviorism" is coined by John B. Watson, who argued that personality can only be determined through overt responses
  • Manipulation of environment may produce certain behaviors
• Humanistic


  • Focused on changes and development of personality
  • How a person behaves depends upon his reality and not from his environment
• Trait Theory


  • Posited that personality can be understood as exhibited in one's common traits of characteristic ways of behaving
  • Raymond Cattell's personality assessment
  • Hans Eysenck is a trait theorist that emphasized that biological inheritance is the origin of human traits
• Factors affecting the Development of Personality

  • Nature
  • Nurture
• Nature


  A person's biological inheritance, 23 pairs of chromosome we got from our parents, dominant genes overpower recessive genes
• Nurture


  Development contributed by the environment, formal learning affects personality as one is immersed to different kinds of people
• Basic Personality Traits

  • Openness to Experience
  • Conscientiousness
  • Extraversion
  • Agreeableness
  • Neuroticism
• Intelligence


  • According to Charles Spearman, intelligence is the single factor that enables problem solving and doing well in areas of cognition
  • Louis Leon Thurstone proposed that there are 7 primary kinds of intelligence
  • To Raymond Cattell, intelligence is crystallized and fluid, and includes knowledge and sills measured by tests and vocabulary
  • To Robert Sternberg, intelligence consist of componential, experiential, and contextual knowledge
  • To todays age, intelligence is defined as the global capacity to act purposely, to think rationally, and deal effectively with immediate environment. It involves reasoning, problem solving ability, knowledge, memory, and the successful adaptation to one's surrounding
• Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner, Ph.D.

  • Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence
  • Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
  • Spatial-Visual Intelligence
  • Bodily-Kinesthestic Intelligence
  • Musical Intelligence
  • Interpersonal Intelligence
  • Intrapersonal Intelligence
  • Naturalist Intellience
  • Existential Intelligence
• How Do We Develop Intellectually?

  • Study Habits
  • Understanding Learning Styles
  • Develop Learning Skills
  • Managing Time
  • Developing Decisiveness
• Study Habits

  • Have the right mindset
  • Practice "Zero Navigation" when preparing for the coursework
  • Choose the proper venue for studying
  • Make a reviewer
• Understanding Learning Styles

  • Visual Learners
  • Auditory Leaners
  • Tactile/kinethetics Learners
• Develop Learning Skills

  • SENSORY LEARNERS
  • INTUITIVE LEARNERS
  • VISUAL LEARNERS
  • VERBAL LEARNERS
  • ACTIVE LEARNERS
  • REFLECTIVE LEARNERS
  • SEQUENTIAL LEARNERS
  • GLOBAL LEARNERS
• Managing Time


  • Write a to do list
  • Create a weekly and monthly planner
  • Be prepared for your activities way ahead
  • Reduce time spent on several activities
  • Work during uninterrupted work sessions
  • Do not procrastinate
• Developing Decisiveness

  • Refrain from relying on "fate" and the supernatural
  • Choose people of authority when asking for advises
  • Consider always the pros and cons
  • Stand your ground
• Social Development


  It is a result of the individual's relationship with the significant others as he or she performs his or everyday task
• Interpersonal Skills


  • Accept individuals are unique in many aspects
  • Can get along well with family members
  • Can meet and mingle effortlessly with others
  • Have at least one or two intimate friends
  • Team players
  • Gender sensitive
  • They are proactive
• Social Health


  Directly related with relatedness with others. These are connections we establish with others, the use of communication, compromise, and cooperation
• Developing People Skills

  • Invest time, effort, and resources
  • Believe that people behave in certain way fora logical reason
  • Developing trust
  • Maintaining high self-esteem
  • Be open-minded and accept people's flaw
  • Learn to listen
  • Be honest, but still, tactful
  • Speaking well of others
  • Avoid rumor mongering
  • Be flexible to human differences
  • Develop respect for cultures, practices, beliefs, and the likes
• Communication Process

  • The SENDER
  • The CHANNEL
  • The MESSAGE
  • The RECEIVER
  • The FEEDBACK
• Barriers to Effective Communication

  • PHYSICAL BARRIERS
  • PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS
  • DEFENSIVENESS OF THE RECEIVER
  • MOTIVATIONAL DISTORTION FROM THE RECEIVER'S END
  • SELF-PREOCCUPATION
• Developing Good Communication Skills (Daily Conversations)

  • It pays to be articulate
  • Widen vocabulary
  • Read
  • Learn to listen
  • Be patient
  • Tactfulness and openness
  • Respect and courtesy
  • Choose your words
  • Law of exercise
  • Develop proper modulation of voice
• Developing Good Communication Skills (Workplace)

  • Develop active listening skills
  • Develop good judgment
  • Develop ability to persuade others
  • Develop negotiation skills
  • Develop the ability to keep an open mind
  • Develop a great sense of humor
  • Be able to know the audience
  • Be honest
  • Awareness of body language
  • Good manners
• Improving Group Cohesion

  • Conflict Resolution
  • Patience
  • Tolerance
• Leadership


  According to Dwight D. Eisenhower, a famous general in the Second World War, is the art of getting someone else to do something for you. Leaders set directions, inspires and creates a road map for the objective
• Transformational Leadership


  Transforms people in the organization to achieve the group goal. This insight was proposed by James MacGregor Burns, and later developed by Bernard Bass
• Qualities of a Transformational Leader

  • Develops noble vision and mission for the future
  • Directs and motivates members to gear themselves towards organizational goal
  • Plans and develops ways for the achievement of the vision
  • Improves the performance of the team through adoption of efficient strategies and approaches
• Qualities of a Good Leader

  • Delegates
  • Honest
  • Communicates
  • Commited to goal
  • Confident
  • Positive
  • Dynamic
• Biopsychosocial Model of Health (BPS)


  According to the BPS model of health, physical illness is caused by complex interaction of biological (genes, gender, etc), psychological (thoughts, emotions, and behavior), and sociocultural factors (socio-economic, socio-environmental, and cultural)
• Promoting Physical Health: Personal Hygiene

  • The skin
  • The hair
  • The teeth
  • Good grooming
• Social Graces


  Skills used to interact politely in social situations. They include manners, etiquette, deportment, fashion, and refinement. This is maintained through certain unwritten guidelines that maintain the harmony in relationships through etiquette which adheres to conventional requirements of social behavior
• Examples of Social Graces

  • Smoking etiquette
  • Drinking etiquette
  • Dating etiquette
  • Party etiquette
  • Phone etiquette
• Posture


  The position in which you hold your body upright against gravity while standing, sitting, or lying down. Good posture involves training your body to stand, walk, sit, and lie
• Ways to Improve Health

  • Proper nutrition
  • Clean environment (resource conservation, recycling, reduce pollution)
• Emotion


  • Comes from the latin word "Emovere" which means to move out
  • Spontaneous responses to stimuli
  • Natural and random response to situations that may cause anger, sadness, happiness, and fear
• Types of Emotions

  • Positive Emotions (happiness, excitement, joy, relief, triumph, jubilation)
  • Negative Emotions (sadness, disgust, annoyance, anxiety, jealousy, fear)