POLITICAL SELF

DEVELOPING A FILIPINO IDENTITY: VALUES,

TRAITS, COMMUNITY AND INSTITUTIONAL
FACTORS
Hispanic Culture
 Influenced the natives.

Christianity
 Dominant religion and a western-based social and political organization was
established in the Philippines.

Americans
 Shaped the modern Filipino culture, and this is primarily manifested by the
widespread use of English language in the Philippines today.

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 DR. PATRICIA B. LICUANAN
(Psychologist, Educator, and Former chairperson
of the Commission on Higher Education)

STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE

FILIPINO CHARACTER ROOTED IN
FACTORS:
 THE HOME ENVIRONMENT  RELIGION
 THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT  THE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT

 CULTURE AND LANGUAGE  THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT

 HISTORY  MASS MEDIA

 LEADERSHIP AND MODELS
 THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

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STRENGTHS OF THE FILIPINO CHARACTER
 Pakikipagkapwa-tao  Hard work and Industry
 Family-orientation  Faith and Religiosity
 Joy and Humor  Ability to Survive
 Flexibility, Adaptability, and Creativity

WEAKNESSES OF THE FILIPINO CHARACTER

 Extreme Perosnalism  Colonial Mentality

 Extreme Family-centeredness  Kanya-kanya Syndrome

 Lack of Discipline  Lack of Self-analysis and Self-

Refelction
 Passivity and Lack of Initiative

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 ESTABLISHING A
DEMOCRATIC CULTURE
DEMOCRACY is a government in which the
supreme power is vested in and exercised by the
people directly or indirectly through a system
of representation, usually involving periodically
held free elections.

1. Democracy helps prevent cruel and vicious autocrats from ruling

2. It fosters human development (i.e., health, education, personal
income, and any other indicators) more fully than do other forms of
government.
3. Democracy helps protect fundamental individual rights and
interests.
4. Democratic societies provide people the maximum opportunity to
take moral responsibility for their choices and decisions.
5. Democratic societies offer a relatively high chance of political
equality.
ADJUSTMENT OF INDIVIDUAL AWARENESS TO
COLLECTIVE AWARENESS IS ACHIEVED
THROUGH-
refers to a system od ideas and models that are offially established.
FORMAL WAY

refers to the acceptance of behaviors and thoughts that are not

INFORMAL established as the formal way of interpersonal relations.
WAY

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DIGITAL
SELF
 The feeling of an inner self and an outer self generated the impulse to
reveal oneself to others in a believable manner.
LIONEL
TRILLING
(University professor and author)
 Analysis of literature about “self ” and its relati onship with
others disti nguished sincerity and authenti city.

SINCERITY
 Refers to the exposure in public of what one feels privately.
AUTHENTIC
PERSON
 One who takes action based on some internal standard and takes responsibility for
this freely chosen action

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 SOCIAL WORLD - THREE
DOMAINS

Family School Neighbor-

hood

The emergence of the internet, however, adds a fourth domain

– the online life – to the social world.

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 I, Me, Myself and my user ID Online Identity

DIGITAL SELF
 The self that is constructed online

Analyses of the experiences of online users (especially teenagers)

have shown that the characteristics et the digital self are
 Oriented inward
 Narrative in nature
 Retractable
 Multipliable

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People are able to present themselves online in the manner that
they want to. This process is called self-presentation. Research
suggests that self-presentation tends to be superficial.

The basic kinds of people you interact with online are:

1. People you do not know at all;
2. People you know both online and offline,
3. People you know only online.

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SELECTIVE SELL-PRESENTATION AND
IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT

Self-presentation behavior
 is any behavior intended to create, modify, or maintain an impression of ourselves in
the minds of others. Whenever we are attempting to lead people to think of us in a
particular way, we are engaging in self-presentation.

Why do people engage in self-presentation?

 Self-presentation
 Helps facilitate social interaction;
 Enables individuals to attain material and social rewards; and
 Helps people privately construct desired identities.
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 GENERALLY, SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS ARE USED FOR:
Social Browsing;
Social Searching;
Communicati on;
Impression Management.

Impression Management
 is the att empt to control or infl uence any other people's percepti ons. This could be
their percepti on of a certain person (including you), a material possession, or an
event. There are two main moti ves of att empti ng to manage the impressions of
others:
1. Instrumental. This motive is to basically gain rewards and increase one's self- esteem.
2. Expressive. This motivation is about attempting to be in control of one's personal behavior and
identity.
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IMPRESSION-MANAGEMENT
STRATEGIES
 SELF-PROMOTION

 INGRATIATION

 EXEMPLIFICATION

 INTIMIDATION

 SUPPLICATION

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 Boundaries of the Self Online: Private vs.
Public; Personal/Individual vs. Social Identity
Online
Private vs. Public Self
• Private. The prevalent definition among social psychologists is "private" refers mental
events in a person that are inherently unobservable by others.
• Public. What social psychologists consider as "public" are behaviors that are open t
the observations of other people.
PRIVATE PUBLIC
 Phenomenological experience  Observable behavior
 Acting only for self  Acting as agent for others
 Actor controls access to information regarding self  Information about self not controlled by actor
 Acting in the interest of a limited number of people  Acting in the interest of the community

Social profiles are a description of individuals' social characteristics that identify them on social media
sites, such as LinkedIn and Facebook. When it comes to online personal or business branding, the creation
of social media profiles is absolutely essential. 15
Individual vs. Social Identity
 Personal (individual) identity is the concept you develop
about yourself that evolves over the course of life.
Characteristics of personal identity:
 The emphasis is on the individual.
 It is created through differences in personal characteristics when
comparing the self with others.

 Social Identity is a person's sense of who he/she is based on group membership(s). They
asserted that the groups (e.g., social class, family, basketball team, and so on), to which
people belonged to were an important source of pride and self-esteem.

Characteristics of social identity:

 The emphasis is on what the person has in common with the
members of his or her group.
 It is created based on similarities with others.

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 GENDER AND SEXUALITY ONLINE

A stereotype is a fixed, over generalized belief about a particular group or class of people (Cardwell,
2014). The use of stereotypes is a manner in which people simplify the social world. Stereotyping is
assuming that the characteristics and abilities of one person is also present in all members of the group.
Stereotyping leads to social categorization, which is one of the reasons for prejudice attitudes (ie., "them"
and "us" mentality).

Factors that affect an adolescent's sexuality

1. Hormones
2. Personality or temperament
3. Social or environmental factors
4. Media and the Internet.

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 An adolescent's sexual interest has a lot to do with his or her
hormones. The brain controls puberty by producing hormones
that travel in the bloodstream to various organs.

 The sex organs (gonads) are stimulated to have sex hormones.

 A girl's ovaries are stimulated to make the female hormone

estrogen.

 A boy's testicles are stimulated to make the male hormone

testosterone
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  Meanwhile, personality or temperament is an important
psychological factor that also decides the attitude toward
sexuality. For example, there are introvert adolescents who
face difficulty in approaching and responding sexually.

Social or environmental factors that facilitate sexual learning and decide the sexual attitude
of the adolescent include:
• Attitude of parents toward sexuality
• Parenting style
• Peer relationship
• Cultural influences

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THANK YOU

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