Unit 1 – Self-Development

Self Concept Personal Effectiveness

-Refers to your awareness of yourself -Means making use of all the personal resources
-Is the construct that negotiates Ideal and Actual Self. - Knowledge of yourself and how you manage yourself impacts
-Connotes first the identification of the ideal self and encompasses all this directly
behaviour evaluated in the actual self -Being self-aware is the key to improve Personal Performance
-Depends on our innate characteristics (Talents and
Categories of Self-Concept Experience) accumulated in the process of Personal Development
▪Ideal Self Talent
-Is the self that you aspire to be -Are needed to be identified and then developed
-One that you hope will possess characteristics similar to that of a Experience
mentor or some other worldly figure -includes knowledge and skills that we acquire
- Is how we want to be Knowledge
-An idealized image that we have developed over time -is required for setting goals
-Could include components of what our parents have Skills
taught us also determine whether real actions are performed in
▪Actual Self accordance with the plan
-Is the one that you actually see
-Is the self that has characteristics that you were nurtured Types of Skills
-Is built on self-knowledge ▪Determination
-Is who we actually are -Allows you to focus only on achieving a specific goal
-Is how we think, how we feel, look, and act without being distracted by less important things
-The actual self is our self-image. ▪Self-confidence
-Appears in the process of personal development, as a
Self-Knowledge result of getting aware of yourself
-Derived from social interactions that provide insight into how others ▪Persistence
react to you -It makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging
Negotiation Obstacles
-Exists between the two selves which is complex because ▪Managing stress
there are numerous exchanges between the ideal and actual -Helps combat stress
self Stress- Arises from an uncertainty in an unknown situation
Social Roles ▪Problem-solving skills
-Where exchanges are exemplified -Help cope with the problems encountered with the lack of
- Adjusted and re-adjusted experience
-And are derived from outcomes of social interactions from infant to ▪Creativity
adult development -Allows you to find extraordinary ways to carry out a specific
Incongruence Action
-Will result in distress or anxiety ▪Generating Ideas
-Helps achieving goals using new ideas
 Aspects of Self
Kinds of People ▪Physical or Tangible aspects
▪Moviegoer ▪Intellectual and Conscious Aspect
-Watches the movie of their lives admires some part and criticizes others ▪Emotional and Intuitive Aspects
-They do nothing else
- “I like this thing and but I don’t like that thing.” Mind
-Feels she has absolutely no control of their lives -Part of the self that directs the other two aspects
▪Actor -Provides access creativity and serenity
-Does not only watch her movie
-She can actually make or break the movie THE STORY OF THE TWO WOLVES
-Are a happy bunch realizing they’re start of the show -Old Cherokee Indian story
▪Scriptwriter
-She actually creates the entire movie
-Determines what will she say and how movie will end
-Has enormous control over her life

Aspects of Development
▪Physical Self
Height, Weight, Facial Appearance
▪Intellectual Self
How well you reason and solve problems
▪Emotional Self
Typical feelings you have
▪Sensual Self
What sense do you use the most
▪Interactional Self
Strengths and Weaknesses
▪Nutritional Self
How you nourish yourself
▪Contextual Self
Reaction to light, temperature
▪Spiritual Self or Life Force
Feelings about yourself and organized religion

Self-concept
-Represented by several aspects of the self
-Construct believes that context activates particular regions of self-
knowledge