Unit 4 Lesson 3

Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences

General Academic Strand | Humanities and Social Sciences
Filipino values
such as
pakikisama,
utang na loob,
and hiya were
seen as negative
values by foreign
sociologists like
Lynch.

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Filipino sociologist
Virgilio Enriquez
launched the
sikolohiyang Pilipino
movement to correct
misconceptions
about such Filipino
values.

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 Learning
Competency Evaluate the person’s personality using the core
values of Sikolohiyang Pilipino (HUMSS-
DIS11_IVf-3).

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 Learning
Objectives ● Explain the beginnings of sikolohiyang
Pilipino.

● Discuss how sikolohiyang Pilipino became an

indigenized branch of psychology.

● Understand the meaning of kapwa.

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 Activity: F i l i p i n o V a l u e s
Explore 1. Form a groups of four students students each.
2. Choose from among the following values:
Paggalang sa nakakatanda (respect for
erderly), mapagbigay (generous), masipag
(industrious), magalang (polite), magiliw sa
mga panauhin (hospitable), matulungin
(helpful) pakiramdam (knowing through feeling),
kagandahang-loob (courtesy), and
pakikipagkapwa (companionship).
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 Activity: F i l i p i n o V a l u e s
Explore
3. Think of a situation that portrays your
chosen value. Write your answers on the
table below.
VALUE SITUATION

● Portray your situation in front of the class for

three minutes.

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 1. What situations did your classmates
Explore
portray?

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 2. What do these values have in
Explore
common?

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 3. What do these values say about the
Explore
Filipino personhood?

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 Sikolohiyang Pilipino

Introduction

During the 1970s, Filipino social

psychologist Virgilio Enriquez
developed Sikolohiyang Pilipino
which was a theory of Filipino
personhood anchored on
indigenous concepts and
methods.
Virgilio Enriquez
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 Sikolohiyang Pilipino

Three Eras of Sikolohiyang Pilipino

1. Pre–sikolohiyang Pilipino — characterized by
the psychology in the Philippines being largely
based on Western ideas on the subject
2. Rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino — reflects a
paradigm shift away from a Westernized focus
on behaviorism and use of the experimental
method toward a more indigenized
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 Sikolohiyang Pilipino

Three Eras of Sikolohiyang Pilipino

3. Sikolohiyang Pilipino — marked by a move

toward a local or indigenized understanding
of the Filipino identity

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Essential
Question
How does sikolohiyang Pilipino help one to
have a deeper understanding of oneself as a
Filipino?

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 Beginnings of Sikolohiyang Pilipino
Sikolohiyang Pilipino
Perspective in psychology that arose from
experience (karanasan), thought (kaisipan),
and orientation of the Filipinos (oryentasyong
Pilipino).

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Beginnings of Sikolohiyang Pilipino

Sikolohiyang Pilipino
Grounded on the historical and cultural
experiences of Filipinos as well as languages in
determining the Filipino psyche

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 Check
Your
Progress
Why do you think there was a need to develop
a psychology that truly reflects the Filipino
identity?

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 Core Concepts in Sikolohiyang Pilipino

Kapwa
● Defined by Enriquez as "a
recognition of shared
identity, an inner self
shared with others"
● Plays out interpersonally
and socio–personally
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Core Concepts in Sikolohiyang Pilipino

Surface Values
● hiya, pakikisama, and lakas ng loob
belong at the level of interpersonal
experience
Societal Values
● karangalan and katarungan play out at the
socio–personal sphere.
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Core Concepts in Sikolohiyang Pilipino

Pakiramdam
● Ability to sense and feel the inner experience of one’s
kapwa

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Core Concepts in Sikolohiyang Pilipino

Kagandahang loob
● Predisposes a person to be attuned to the needs
and purposes of the larger collective

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Core Concepts in Sikolohiyang Pilipino

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 Check
Your
Progress

How does kapwa give the Filipino a unique

identity?

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 ● Sikolohiyang Pilipino is the psychology that arose
Wrap-Up
from the experience (karanasan), thought
(kaisipan), and orientation of the Filipinos
(oryentasyong Pilipino) based on Filipino culture
and language.

● Virgilio Enriquez, a Filipino social psychologist,

developed sikolohiyang Pilipino based on
psychological knowledge from local culture that
reflects the true Filipino personhood.

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Wrap-Up
● According to sikolohiyang Pilipino, at the core of
Filipino personhood is the idea of kapwa, or a sense
of shared self with others.

● Our sense of kapwa rests on our ability to

pakiramdam or feel our way into the feelings and
thoughts of other people.

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 Activity: Think of three situations that show
Challenge
pakiramdam and kagandahang–loob. Describe
Yourself each in the table below and answer the guide
questions that follow.

Situation Description
(1)
(2)
(3)

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Challenge
Yourself

How does each situation show pakiramdam

and kagandahang–loob?

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Challenge
Yourself

How do the situations you have chosen show a

sense of kapwa?

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Challenge
Yourself

What do these values say about the Filipino

personhood?

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Photo Credit
● Slide 4 and 11: Doc e by Dedumaop is licensed
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Porcadas, Maica Dela Cruz. "Evolution of discourse:
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Yacat, Jay. "Filipino psychology (sikolohiyang Pilipino)." The
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