The Filipinization
of
Personality Theory
Guleng, Adrian Angelico
Thought Provoking Questions
1.Do you think that this theory is universal?
2.Why do we need Filipino Psychology?
Issues in Early
Studies
Brief History and Biography
Topics to be Behavior Patterns and Value Structure:
Pivot Core Value
Covered Surface Values
Foundation of Human
Values
🤧 Western behavior patterns are being put forward as models for the
Filipino
🤧 Native Filipino suffers from comparison
Issues in Early 🤧 Studies have failed to see the values in terms of the Filipino world
view, experience, and milieu.
Studies 🤧 Findings from studies reflected more of the colonial instead of the
indigenous identity of the Filipino
🤧 Majority of studies rely critically on a borrowed language, If
Philippine terms are used, they simply function as mere labels
🤧 There are inapplicable categories of analysis
HOW DID SIKOLOHIYANG PILIPINO BEGIN?
Sikolohiyang Pilipino
• Also known as Doc E
• Father of Filipino Psychology
(Ama ng Sikolohiyang Filipino)
Born: November 24, 1942
From: Bulacan, Philippines
Studies:
• Master’s Degree - 1966 United States
• Doctoral Degree - Northwestern University, Illinois
• Returned to Philippines. - 1971
Virgilio
Enriquez
Preview:
Utang na Loob
Hiya Pakikisama
KAPWA
Pakikiramdam
Surface Values
Accommodative Surface
Confrontative Surface Value
Values
Hiya Bahala na
(propriety/dignity) (determination)
Utang na Loob Lakas ng loob
(gratitude/solidarity) (inner source for change)
Pakikisama Pakikibaka
(companionship/esteem) (resistance)
Surface Values
Accommodative Surface
Values
Western Studies:
Local
LocalStudies:
Studies:
☠ Definition by Sibley:
✔✔ Has
aa
Definition
Moral by Salazar:
Dimension
Hiya ✔
- huya/hiya is social in character
- Has loobof
Importance (internal/being) and labas (external/interpersonal)
Affixation System
☠ Only bandied as ‘’shame’’ or ‘’embarrassment’’ in
(propriety/dignity) western studies
A woman who committed suicide to escape hiya:
Loob (Internal) - Emotional Dimension
Local Nahiya
Studies:
Mahiyain. sa tao;
Kahiya-hiya, sa Diyos ay hindi
and Hiyang-hiya
✔ Has Moralbe:
Should Dimension
Nakakahiya sa tao; sa Diyos ay
✔ Labas
hindi
(External)
Importance of - Social Dimension
Affixation System
✔ Hiyain,
Has Ikahiya,
loob and Manghiya
(internal/being)
More appropriate to use andfor
labas
Social aspect of Hiya:
(external/interpersonal)
Dyahe
Surface Values
Accommodative Surface
Values
Western
Local Studies:
Studies:
✔☠Definition
was singlebyoutDeform
Mesa:the long list of loob-related concepts
- used as a plea to any favor, who shares a common
Utang na Loob ☠ Definition
humanity by exists
(loob), Kaut :just because we are fellow human
beings - debt of gratitude
(gratitude/solidarity - Direct exchange of goods and favors
✔ Definition
- reciprocity
by Enriquez:
) - gratitude/solidarity
☠ Definition by Hollnsteiner:
- ‘’ to show his gratitude properly by returning the favor
with interest ’’
Surface Values
Accommodative Surface
Values
Western Studies:
☠ Definition by Lynch:
- smooth interpersonal relations
Pakikisama - led him to believe that pakikisama is a value
(companionship/esteem) Local Studies
✔ Pakikisama is a form of pakikipagkapwa but not the
.
other way around
✔ Pakikipagkapwa, not pakikisama, is what Filipinos value
the most
Surface Values
Confrontative Surface Value
Western Studies
Local Studies:
☠ Definition by Bostrom:
- Compared
👌 Definition it to American Fatalism and escapism
by Lagmay:
(Fatalism- it:operates
understoodin aas a passive
situation acceptance
which is full ofof the Bahala na
turns in the patterns
uncertainty and lackof oflife)
information
- -itperson
serveswould
as a reliever of tension
utter the and confront
phrase and a reactions (determination)
against the social structure
the situation
- Indication of an acceptance of the nature of
☠things,
Definition by Oasis:
including the inherent limitations of one’s self
- combination of fatalism and determinism
Surface Values
Confrontative Surface Value
Western Studies:
-
👎 Due to accommodative and servile image of the
Filipino, it was said that we lack lakas ng loob
Local Studies: Lakas ng loob
👍 Filipinos have lakas ng loob
Defined as: (inner source for
- Damdamin (internal feel/attribute/trait) necessary for
actualizing the food not only in one’s self but also in change)
one’s fellow man (kapwa), in one’s loob and
infacilitating the ‘’social good’’ in kapwa.
- Key for the realization of pagbabagong dangal,
enabling one to face difficulties
Surface Values
Confrontative Surface Value
Local Studies:
👍 Level of fusion in a common struggle in the face of
injustice and exploitation
Kapwa Oriented:
- awakens the Filipino’s consciousness of present day
Pakikibaka
realties and motivates him to be one in the struggle to
break way from the neo-clutches of the neo-colonial
(resistance)
set-up.
- affirms one conviction as part of one’s being
Associated Societal Values
Kalayaan Karangalan Katarungan
(Freedom) (Dignity) (Justice)
Kagandahang-loob
(Share inner nobility)
Thought Provoking Questions
1.Do you think that this theory is universal?
2.Why do we need Filipino Psychology?
Thank You!
Do you have any questions?
Enriquez, V. G. (1994). The Filipinization of personality theory.
Reference:
From colonial to liberation psychology: The Philippine
experience (pp 58-79). Manila: De La Salle University Press.
