Mental Health Presentation

MYP3 GRADE 8 GREGORY PERRY

GIOVANNA BARRETO

12/05/2014

INTRODUCTION

The

following presentation has the intention to introduce

about: Personality, Self-Esteem and Emotions.

All

along history, people proved to express their selves on

different ways which now gave us the possibility of studying
that subject, and so better analyzing peoples way of
thinking.

Research Question

Between adults\ students, which group react better in

challenging or complicated situations?

Research Prediction

I predict that the answer to my question will be exactly what I had

in mind at the first time. Between adults/children which group
reacts better in challenging or difficult situations?: by experience
of my own, adults usually have more maturity and experience, so
when they get to difficult situations where they have to solve it for
their self, they get more facility to deal with everything especially
psychologically talking. I think they can control more their feelings
and emotions at the time they have to, so the situation has more
chance to go right.

MY THEORY

The

theory used on this Project states that adults have more

maturity to act and react towards a difficult situation, since
they have more experiences than children.

The

current survey that will be presented today, contains

information for us to understand that importance of always
been clear in the way we express the informations to the
reader.

Section 1 - Personality
KEY POINTS: Personality = behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and ways of
thinking
There is a very important phycologist that contributed to
many advances
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Erikson
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think,
andand
behave.
according to the theory he developed, personality develops
The environment
willasinfluence
on the
personality
of the person:
throughout life
people meet
a series
of challenges.
Family experiences you has as a child, lessons about feelings, attitudes
and appropriate ways to behave from the families. All this process is
called MODELING.
Friends people who are about the same age and share similar interests,
have increasingly influence, which is called PEER GROUP.
Culture personality traits that might be valued in one culture may not

Section 1 - Personality
Personality traits are influenced by a combination of heredity
During our life, there are many emotional stages which we pass
and environment.
through. One ate childhood, the others as we are teen and
Talking about peoples personality, there are five central traits
adults, and the last but not least 3rd age.
to describe how people behave, relate to the others, and react
to change:
Extroversion

POSITIVE/ NEGATIVE

Agreeableness

POSITIVE

Conscientiousness
Emotional stability

POSITIVE
POSITIVE

Section 2 Self-Esteem
The term self-esteem refers to how much you respect
yourself and like yourself. Its a continuum, ranging from
high self-esteem to low self-esteem, in which high selfesteem has a positive effect on health, while low has a
negative effect on health.
People have many ways to improve their self-esteem:
Make a list of strengths and weakness
Dont be too hard on yourself
Rely on yourself
Self-actualization ????

Section 2 Self-Esteem

Raising a
bad selfesteem

Generally what happens on adolescence, teens usually

critique their own appearance, abilities, interests and even
shortcomings, and are always comparing their selves to the
best athletes, or most attractive celebrities, which results on a
suffered self-esteem during that period of time.
The term means the process by which people
achieve their full potential, and according to
Maslow, to achieve that people must have their
basic needs must be met (physical, to feel
safe, to belong and for steam.)

Section 3 - Emotions

Emotions are the reactions to a situation that involves your

mind, body and behavior. Even though, it looks like a simple
are of study, studying humans emotions is a complicated
task.

There are primary emotions, which are the ones that

everyone born with.

There are also learned emotions that depends on what type

of environment you grow up.

Many people on todays society are not able to recognize

their own emotions, which is a problem. Recognizing your
emotions is very important since its the first step toward
dealing with them in healthful ways.

Section 3 - Emotions

There
Boredom
are

many types of emotions and those are:

Confidence
Affection
Contempt
Anger
Curiosity
Anguish
Courage
Desire
Annoyance
Despair
Anxiety
Disappointment
Disgust
Desire
Happiness
Sadness

About the survey

The survey had the initial intention to answer to the

question that guided all this:

Between adults\ students, which group react better in

challenging or complicated situations?

Survey Questions
On the following options, choose the ones that you think will make a person gets more mature:
In which of the following groups are you:
New experiences

Controlling
your emotions
Over
18 years old
Have a self-centered point of view

Younger than 18 years old

Give up on difficult situations
How
Been
often
do you pass through challenging or difficult situations?
resilient
Staying on your comfort zone

Always
Repeat continuously the same mistakes

Sometimes
If you have already discussed with your parents, who do you think reacted better:
Parents

Never
You

I just
passed through, once
Both
When
a challenging
situation
whatonshould
we do:
How
well we
youface
think
you can control
your self
hard conversations?
Stay calm

Very
good and shout
Scream
Get angry

Well
Think

Bad
Ignore everything around you
Considering
the conversations
options

I have
never hadallhard
Ask for help

Survey Questions

Who are the first persons you look for when you dont know how to solve a particular situation?

Parents

Between adults/children which group do you think react better in

Best challenging
friend
or difficult situations?
Adults
Brother
Children
Sister
How often do you talk to your parents?
Psychologist
Sometimes
Always
Other
Never
If there
was two friends of yours fighting for a reason that you dont know yet, what would you do?
Other

Ask what is happening

Interfere and tell them to stop

Shout with both of them

Call an authority of the place

Ask other friends for help

Question one

Survey

Summary of responses:
Question three

Question two

- than 18

Very Good
Always

Sometimes

Never

Just once

Well

Bad

Never had

+ than 18

Question 5

Question four
Question 7

Parents
New experiences
Controlling your emotions
Parents
Best Friend Brothers
Sisters
Physichologist Other
Have a self-centered point of view Give up
Been resilient
Comfort zone
Question 6
Question
9
Repeat mistakes
Other

Adults

Stay Calm
Ignore
Children

Scream and Shout

Options

You

Both
Ask

Question 8

Interfeer

Shout

Question 10

Get angry Think

Help
Sometimes
Always

Never

Other

Call authority

Ask help

Conclusion

My original hypothesis was that if we take two people of different age groups,
over and younger than 18, to face and solve a challenging situations, people
that are over 18 years old will for certain react better, know what to do and
what not to do. This result is because people over 18 have passed through
many more experience which someone that just started the life as an adult, so
they will be the ones that have maturity enough to deal with a difficult or
challenging situation. Even though the group of people younger than 18 will try
and do their best to act as if they are capable to deal all that, their experience
and self-mental preparation are not mature enough to pass through such a
thing without any consequences in it personal life management. There were 19
people interviewed and divided on the two groups were 13 people over 18
years old and 16 people younger than 18 years old.