PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Also known as self-development.
- Discovering one’s potential and capabilities shaped over time by studying in a formal school or through
environmental factors.
Know Thyself – knowledge begins in self-discovery.
Socrates
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
Thomas Hobbes
“Read Thyself.” – The Leviathan
Sigmund Freud
- A well-known psychologist, neurologist, and the creator of psychoanalysis theory and the father of
psychoanalysis.
- Proposed that there are three components of personality within us.
THREE COMPONENTS OF PERSONALITY
ID
- satisfy a man’s desire without thinking much about the situation.
- The most primitive part of the personality, present from birth.
- Operates entirely on the unconscious level.
Ego
- Operates accordingly to reality which makes it possible for the id to work in a more proper and
satisfactory ways.
- Develops from the id and operates both conscious and unconscious mind.
- Serves as the realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the constraints of the real
world.
Superego
- Hold our moral judgements or concept of right or wrong that are believed to be acquired from the family
and the environment.
- Moral component of personality, which develops around the age of five.
- Encompasses the internalized ideals and standards for judgement acquired from parents and society.
Self-Concept
- Comprehensive term used in psychology to describe how individuals perceive and evaluate
themselves.
- Represented by several aspects of the self.
COMPONENTS OF SELF-CONCEPT
Self-esteem
- A personal opinion and is shaped by individuals’ relationships with others, experiences, and
accomplishments in life.
- Derived from a sense of giving and receiving love and being respected by others.
Body Image
- One’s perception of physical self, including appearance, function, and ability.
- Dynamic because any change in body structure or function, including the normal changes of growth
and development, can affect it.
