LICEO DE CAGAYAN UNIVERSITY

Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City

G-UND-SELF- UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

CASE STUDY FORMAT

Instructions: Use yourself as a case study exploring your profile, family background, educational
background, social history, childhood, adolescence and early adulthood experiences, analysis
based on sociological, anthropological, psychological, and western/eastern perspectives in
understanding yourself, and conclusion which covers your insights.

Knowing more about myself

I. Personal Profile

⮚ James Ryan L. Suralta

⮚ 19 Years Old
⮚ Male
⮚ Cebu City
⮚ May 27 2003
⮚ Roman Catholic
⮚ Single
⮚ 131 Zone 1 Ferrabrel Street Carmen, CDOC
⮚ College on Going
⮚ your name, age, sex, birthdate, birthplace, birth order, religion, civil status,
address, education attainment/level)

II. Family Background

⮚ Name of mother and father

⮚ Father: Jose E. Suralta Jr.
⮚ Mother: Agnes L. Suralta
⮚ Where and when your parents met
⮚ Cebu City
⮚ How many years are they married? Separated? How many years?
⮚ Married for 19 Years
⮚ How many siblings? Ages?
⮚ I have 2 siblings, 9 and 17 y.o
⮚ Describe your parents, siblings and family
⮚ They are like a maze, I can't find a way on how they act.
⮚ Discipline method employed by your parents/grandparents, status of relationship
with family members/siblings/relatives
⮚ A little bit of complicated
⮚ Source of income of your parents
 ⮚ Own business
⮚ Significant or memorable experiences with your family
⮚ None.

III. Educational Background

⮚ Age at the time you started school
⮚ 7 years old
⮚ Honors or sanctions received
⮚ Perfect attendance, With Honors
⮚ Relationship with classmates, teachers, and other school authorities
⮚ In my past school I have more relationships with the school authorities,
my friends and teachers.
⮚ Significant experiences in school or with classmates and teachers
⮚ Me and my group of friends got called in the principal for doing dumb
things.
⮚ My whole section got caught cheating in a quiz.
⮚ I joined modeling in our school.

IV. Social History

⮚ Relationship with family members, peers, neighbors, and the entire
community
⮚ My relationship with my members, peers and neighbors are fair.
⮚ Traits you have acquired from your parents/grandparents/siblings/friends
⮚ My calmness trait comes from my father
⮚ My short height is from my mother
⮚ My nose is from my Father

V. Childhood/Adolescence/Early Adulthood Experiences

A. Infancy and Childhood

⮚ Describe the pregnancy of your mother when she conceived you

⮚ I don’t know I'm still in my womb, how will I know?
⮚ Place where you were born-hospital or house?
⮚ Hospital
⮚ Memories in childhood- unforgettable
⮚ We played together with my fellow kids neighbors and we sometimes quarrel
but that's normal, as time passes by growing up I miss those days where we
bonded and played together.
⮚ Use the theory of cognitive development in describing your infancy and
childhood
⮚ From being taking care and getting lots of love and attention
⬇
⮚ Getting scolded for doing wrong things
⬇
⮚ To get more respectful because I got taught properly how to do manners.
⮚ Describe the language, play and game during this stage using Mead’s theory
⮚ The first stage is the preparatory stage. This stage is where I am still learning
and mimicking my environment
⮚ The second stage is the Play stage. This is where I was still a young kid who
only knows how to play and not think about other complicated things.
⮚ The third stage is the game stage. This stage is where I know what to do and
understand the things that is happening around me.
⮚ What are the reminders/lessons you have learned from your parents
⮚ Not to do bad things because that will eventually come back to you if you do
bad things and that is called Karma.
⮚ Describe your friends (neighbors, cousins, relatives etc.)
⮚ My friends are the best when it comes to Highschool era, I remember so
many things that we did and the stupid stuff we do. Now that we are growing
up our relationship with our friends started to drift apart due to the
responsibilities in becoming or entering adult life.
⮚ Using Harter’s theory, how do you see yourself during this stage?
⮚ I see myself as a person who is still in solving my thoughts and thinking
about my future
⮚ Experiences in school
⮚ I fell in a sewer in camping
⮚ I experienced Prom
⮚ I experienced camping
⮚ I joined modeling in our school
⮚ I experience 75 grade once
⮚ Favorite food, shows and people
⮚ FAVORITE FOOD:
⮚ Fries
⮚ Pizza
⮚ Shake
⮚ Avocado
⮚ Ice Tea
⮚ Chicken
⮚ FAVORITE SHOW:
⮚ Adventure time
⮚ Top Gun Maverick
⮚ 2012

B. Adolescence

⮚ Fondest memory in high school

⮚ We stayed overnight at the hotel with my friends and took a night stroll.
⮚ Describe your circle of friends
⮚ I can say that before they are dumb but now they are maturing than me, they
are very serious with their ambitions now.
⮚ Special events that shaped your life
⮚ Maybe conflict in the family.
⮚ Significant people and places in your life
⮚ My best friend
⮚ My house
⮚ My Family
⮚ My relatives
⮚ Most stupid things that you did
⮚ I got called in the principal's office
⮚ Most unforgettable experience with friends
⮚ Birthday of my friends where we drink and enjoy the moment
⮚ Favorite color, artists, music
⮚ Favorite color:
⮚ Black

⮚ Favorite Artist:
⮚ Post Malone
⮚ Khalid
⮚ Sam Smith

⮚ Favorite types of music:

⮚ Rock
⮚ Phonk
⮚ Rap

⮚ Describe your first crush, first date

⮚ My first crush was pretty, cute, kind and joyful although it's only crush I've
never dated them.

C. Early Adulthood

⮚ How do you see yourself in 5 years?

⮚ I see myself in a stable relationship, stable job, stable income, and stable
blessings.
⮚ Greatest lesson in life
⮚ Don’t do bad things as it will return back to you, always believe and pray to
God.
⮚ Using Eric Berne’s ego state, how do you resolve conflicts now?
⮚ Observe the situation.
⮚ Plan the next move.
⮚ Perform the planned being made.
⮚ Wait for results.
⮚ Describe your faith and your belief
⮚ I’m a person who believes in God and I believe that with all things good it
will make my life easier.
⮚ What is your greatest dream?
⮚ To have a happy family, to earn more money to help my parents, to become
successful, and to work hard for the family.
⮚ Dream place to go?
 ⮚ Japan, South korea
⮚ Ideal person that you look up to
⮚ My best friend and my father

VI. Analysis (discussion will focus on sociology, anthropology, psychology, and

western/eastern perspectives/theories/concepts)

⮚ Describe how society (sociology) and culture (anthropology) influence your

personality.
⮚ Culture hasn’t really changed my personality but the society is the one that
made a big impact on my attitude/personality because the more what you see
in the society, our human instincts will follow what we see or experience.
⮚ Explain how heredity (nature) and environment (nurture) influence your
upbringing.
⮚ Nature in humanity is normal but when it comes to the environment, it will
greatly influence you since humans are made to adapt to the environment.
⮚ Discuss how theories (identify at least 2) in psychology and western/eastern
concepts influence your perspectives, behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and thoughts
as a child, student, Filipino, and human being in general.
⮚ As a Filipino child I can say that the way the parents are teaching their kids
is a little harsh but that will for sure know when your kids grow up they will
learn how to be responsible and respectful.
⮚ As a filipino living in the country, it is very complicated because of the rules
and system in the Philippines and the politics are very corrupt.

VII. Conclusion (covers your insights learned after analyzing the different
perspectives or theories in understanding yourself deeper)

- I realized that I still lack more things that I can do, and as a student entering adult
life, it is very hard now especially how the things are going around me. I usually
think about my flaws and myself but now that there is this activity my mind begins
to think more on what I experience and what is happening in my life.

FORMAT:
1. Short
2. 1.5 spacing
3. 12, Times New Roman
4. Minimum of 2 pages and maximum of 5 pages
5. Please attach/insert scanned photos too.