Self Analysis Profile

SELF-ANALYSIS PROFILE Marco D. Meduranda CHILDHOOD I was born on October 24, 1985. I am the third in a family with six children. Adler’s birth order theory would put me as the middle child. Though I’m not very assertive, I tend to become quite competitive, constantly trying to surpass my other sibling. I excel in school during my elementary days, maybe that’s my

Baby Marco together with Ate Cherrie

way of asserting myself over my other siblings especially to my elder sisters who were also very good in their studies that time. My childhood was marked with my strong attachment to my mother. To cite Sullivan’s theory, I was nurtured by a “good nipple”. Her caring and warm affection shaped my personality, and in fact, I looked up to her as my role model in terms of character. Still, she knew how to demand discipline. She’s strict but humane. She would spank us whenever we were committing misbehavior but would later cuddle us only to talk about to us why she used force in making us realize our wrong doing. She instilled in me strong values that forever marked in my personhood. My mom would say that I was a witty, smart and “hyper” kid when I was a toddler. She would say that when I was four I could already memorized the schedule of shows in channel two (we’re Kapamilya…) When I turned six, I got asthma and other respiratory illness. I became much closer to her because she would really keep an eye on me due to my fragile health. Perhaps, I developed this fixation termed by Freud as phallic personality, a fixation at the stage of Oedipal complex, where a person strives for success in competition with others. As a consequence, I develop quite an opinion on myself and perhaps also the reason why I appear effeminate.

Hence, even at a young age, I already felt how proud my parents were to me and this consequently contributed to my positive regard about my self. I did not feel the parental indifference that Horney pointed out to be the basic evil in personality maladjustment. Conversely, I was raised in a semi-provincial environment, Malabon, where incidence of flooding is a usual occurrence even if it’s not raining due to high tide and to the fact that the land is very much below sea level. I can say that the place somehow also shape my “mental toughness”. I can associate this idea to Bandura’s reciprocal determinism where personal and environmental factors continuously affect one another. I have seen how people still managed to continue with their lives even if the flood is as high as their waist. Flood can be an inconvenience but people in our community don’t see it as major encumbrance. Through observational learning, I was able to acquire a coping mindset towards any problem; that like flood, problems are just natural occurrence and they would eventually subside, or be resolved.

ADOLESCENCE

Adler’s birth order theory would say that middle children are those assertive I and my mom had a very close attachment. The earliest and most vivid memory I can recall is my sixth birthday when my mother was busy preparing foodstuff. I could still recall her sweet smile even if she was cooking a big “kawali” of pansit luglog and menudo. She was a magnificent and a wonderful mother. She’s caring yet firm with her words. She’s meticulous,

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