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Understanding Self Concept and Its Dynamics

The document discusses self-concept, the human person as a multi-dimensional being, and Filipino values. It defines self-concept as our perceptions of our own worth and discusses how it develops from childhood experiences and influences inferiority and superiority complexes. It also describes the human person as having physical, intellectual, moral, and spiritual dimensions both as individuals and as members of society. Finally, it outlines Filipino values like human dignity, health, truth, love, spirituality, social responsibility, and nationalism that are pursued due to the worth of every human person.

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Understanding Self Concept and Its Dynamics

The document discusses self-concept, the human person as a multi-dimensional being, and Filipino values. It defines self-concept as our perceptions of our own worth and discusses how it develops from childhood experiences and influences inferiority and superiority complexes. It also describes the human person as having physical, intellectual, moral, and spiritual dimensions both as individuals and as members of society. Finally, it outlines Filipino values like human dignity, health, truth, love, spirituality, social responsibility, and nationalism that are pursued due to the worth of every human person.

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Understanding Self Concept and Its Dynamics

INTRODUCTION:
The task of education is to help the Filipino develop his potential to contribute to the growth of
Philippine culture. By controlling the environment and making use of human and non-human
resources, he builds appropriate structures and institutions for the attainment of a “just and humane
society”. Thus, the person can become more human through education, for this would aid him to
know and appreciate his purpose as a human being.
 
Lesson Proper:
Understanding Self Concept and Its Dynamics

1.
1. Definition. Self-concept refers to our conscious or unconscious perceptions and feelings about
ourselves with regard to our worth as persons.
2. Early Development. Self-concept begins during our early development, how we are told about
who we are and what worth we have. In the process, we acquire a picture of ourselves and we
begin to qualify our experiences according to this view of ourselves.
3. Inferiority and Superiority Complexes. These are symptoms of a poor self-concept.
A person with a superiority complex tries hard to “exhibit” his worth to others by
overstressing his strength. In truth, he is not really sure of his worth. A person who
believes in his worth does not feel the need to prove himself to others.
A person with an inferiority complex overstresses his weaknesses. He suffers from
extreme feelings of negative self-worth. These feelings are so strong and deeply etched
in his personality that he is unable to recognize his strengths and potentials. 
Significant Roles of Self-Concept
1. Self-concept serves as a mirror because it reflects the picture of ourselves, either
positive or negative. We are happy or miserable depending on the mirror image
that our self-concept presents to us.
2. Self-concept filters our experiences so that we interpret them according to our
pre-existing perceptions of ourselves.
Steps to Take toward a Healthy Self-Concept. Three Dimensions of Self-Concept

1. Self-Image refers to all our perceptions and feelings about our worth with regard to physical and social
appearance. Our physical appearance includes our genetic inheritance, such as sex and race, and our
physical attributes such as height, build weight, and others. Our social appearance includes our name,
roles, status, and titles. A person with a positive self-image recognizes some of his physical and social
limitations but does not all these to deter him from feeling good about how he appears. He has learned
his limitations and therefore, feels at home with himself.
2. Self-Confidence refers to all perceptions and feelings about our worth with regards to our capabilities.
This involves our ability to do things, to achieve, and to develop more competencies. Self-confidence
paves the way to productivity because the person believes in his potentials. He allows these potentials
to develop by trying. He is not afraid of making mistakes. He does not fall into the trap of “being
perfect”. The development of his abilities is measured within his own standard of development.
3. Self-Esteem refers to all our perceptions and feelings about our worth with regard to our lovability. This
relates to our basic ability to love and be loved. A person with high self-esteem believes he is lovable.
He does not reject and put down himself even when others seem to reject him. He does not subject his
lovability to conditions. If other persons love him, he celebrates in it. But he does not let the love of
others be a factor in determining his lovability. A person with high self-esteem can love more freely and
spontaneously.

The Human Person as a Multi-Dimensional Being


The Human Person as a Multi-Dimensional Being. An individual is distinguished between the
person as self and the person in the community.
As an individual/ self. He is not just body and soul, but he is an embodied spirit.
 As physical (made of matter), man must maintain health and harmony with nature.
 As intellectual (gifted with a mind, the faculty of knowing), he must constantly search for the truth. He
seeks knowledge that would transform society and the world.
 As moral (endowed with the faculty of freely choosing and loving), he must go out to others and, in fact,
to all humanity in love.
 As spiritual (capable of higher concerns and of rising above the material), he must cultivate a sense of
spirituality in consonance with his nature and respond to God in faith.  
As person in the community
 As social (living in community), he must cultivate the sense of social responsibility, aware of his unique
participation in the pursuit of the welfare of the family and the common good of the larger society so
that society can, in turn, look after the common good and well-being of the inhabitants.
 As economic (bound to concerns of livelihood), he has the obligation to help achieve economic
efficiency for the community.
 As political (member of the nation). He must foster the sense of nationalism and patriotism, by which he
identifies with the people and joins hands with them in the pursuit of common goals. As a member of
the world community, he must cultivate a sense of global solidarity for the emerging concerns and
problems of one country can no longer be considered in isolation of others.

The Filipino and His Value System


The Filipino and His Value System
Definitions.
A value is something that is freely chosen from alternatives and is acted upon; that
which the individual celebrates as being part of his creative integration in development
as a person.
A value clarification is the process by which we help a person to discover values
through behavior, feelings, ideas and through important choices he has made and is
continually, in fact, acting upon in and through his life.
A person is continually developing his values; values can never be static but must be
continually re-chosen as the person grows in his world. As a person grows in his identity
and interdependence, he is continually choosing values and fashioning his hierarchy of
values
Categories.
 Choosing.
1. The value must be chosen freely, there must be no coercion, the person makes a free choice and is
totally accountable for the choice he makes.
2. The choice must be made from alternatives.
3. The consequences of each of the alternatives must be judged.
 Prizing. This means that a person who chooses a value must be happy about what he has chosen and
hold it as something dear to hum.

1. Cherishing and being happy with the choice


2. Wiling to affirm the choice publicly
 Acting. There must be a commitment-in-action which would change one’s behavior and which would
make evident to other people that there is a value present. If something is really a value, it would be
acted upon and acted upon repeatedly.

1. Actually doing something with the choice


2. Actually repeated in some patterns of life
Value-Ranking. It is the process whereby a person examines, as comprehensively as possible, all of
his values and then ranks them, prioritizes them, or put them within a hierarchy of values. Value-
ranking is a conscious, deliberate, well-articulated, well-thought-out ranking of chosen values. Growth
and personal identity are accomplished when an individual has the opportunity to clarify his attitudes,
weight the priorities operative in the formation of these attitudes, and come to chosen value-rankings
which please and enhance him as a person.
Primary Value. This helps a human being develop to the best of his capacity, and therefore, he has a
goal beyond normal functioning in society to exceptional function. This is basic and necessary for
development to take place.

1. Self-value. This is the ability to accept that “I am of total worth to others.”


2. Value of others. This is the ability to accept that “Others are of total worth, as I am.”
Related Values. The Value Education program of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports
(DECS) identifies human dignity as the supreme values that characterize education: the human
person is of infinite value. Human dignity is the overarching value; all other values are pursued
because of the inner worth of the human person.

1. Health implies physical fitness and cleanliness.


2. Truth implies the tireless quest for knowledge in all its forms. It is not enough to discover data and
know facts, but one must develop creative and critical thinking to meet the challenges of the modern
world.
3. Love implies the quest for personal integrity and the development of self-worth or self-esteem, honesty,
and personal discipline which are marks of a mature person and a useful citizen.
4. Spirituality is the cultivation of faith.
5. Social responsibility means strengthening the family as the “foundation of the nation” and “a basic
autonomous social institution”.
6. Economic Efficiency is achieved by man through work, the exercise of human mastery over the
resources of nature and creative imagination in the solution of complex problems.
7. Nationalism and Patriotism means the love of country and the people as a distinct political unit bound
by a common history, committed to a common cause, and share a common destiny.

Value Orientation of Filipino Adolescents. According to Wilma Reyes in his study on the


Adolescent’s Value system

1. The values of the subjects cluster around six value themes: pananampalataya sa Diyos, buhay,
pamilya, saril, kapwa and edukasyon.
2. Youth consider faith in God as the most important value in life because this is the center of life itself.
This is the animating force of life.
3. The family is considered as a significant part of their own life. Self and life are not complete without the
family.
4. The self is seen not as a separate entity but always related to other people.
5. From the values of pananampalataya, buhay, pamilya and sarili spring the love for kapwa. Everything is
meaningless unless it is shared with the kapwa.
6. Education is considered important because an educated person is well respected in our society and
social mobility is directed towards having good jobs and economically stable conditions.

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