Unit 2: Self-Management Skills (Building Self-Confidence)
Assessment Time
A. Multiple Choice Questions:
1. ________ prevents a child from developing resilience and coping with stress and failure.
a) Authoritative Parenting
b) Regular Schooling
c) Overprotecting Parenting
d) Playing
Answer: c) Overprotecting Parenting
2. ________ adversely affects self-confidence of a child.
a) Overprotective parenting
b) Love and care
c) Physical Punishment
d) Both a and c
Answer: d) Both a and c
3. Cultural competence comprises an understanding of all aspects of a culture that is, social, educational, and ___________.
a) Emotional
b) Organisational
c) Institutional
d) Situational
Answer: a) Emotional
4. People with self-confidence have a _________ outlook.
a) Negative
b) Arrogant
c) Outward
d) Positive
Answer: d) Positive
5. People with low confidence are _________.
a) Smart
b) Pleasant
c) Unprepared
d) Arrogant
Answer: d) Arrogant
B. Fill in the blanks:
1. Trust in one’s own judgement and ability is called self-confidence.
2. Our family, neighbourhood, friends, relatives, school constitute our society.
3. Overprotective parenting shields a child from facing any pain and struggle.
4. The characteristics of a particular society, community, or ethnic group reflected in its practices and beliefs are collectively referred to as culture.
5. Possible challenges and pitfalls in the pursuit of a goal are termed as threats.
C. Answer the Following Questions:
1. What are the three most prominent factors that contribute to building self-confidence are?
Answer: The three most prominent factors that contribute to building self-confidence are:
• Physical Factors
• Cultural Factors
• Social Factors
2. Mention any three attitudes of self-confidence people.
Answer: Self-confident people usually possess the following attitudes:
• Realistic view of self: Confident people are able to recognise their strengths and accept their weaknesses at the same time.
• Deal with mistakes: Confident people accept their mistakes rather than covering or justifying it. Moreover, they are willing to learn from it.
• Focus on growth: In spite of recognising their weaknesses, they choose to focus on the opportunities to grow rather than concentrating on their shortcomings.
3. What is SWOT? How is it useful?
Answer: SWOT stands for Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat. It is a technique that helps one to analyse one’s own strengths and weaknesses. It also helps one in identifying both the available opportunities and possible threats or challenges.
4. Mention any three steps we can take to organise our self.
Answer: Following steps help us to organise ourselves:
• Prioritising our tasks.
• Make a schedule or Time-table
• Avoid Procrastination
5. How does the ‘Opportunity’ part of SWOT analysis help in developing self-confidence?
Answer: The ‘Opportunity’ part of SWOT analysis helps us to recognise projects or challenges that align with our core strengths. By pursuing the projects that are compatible with our strengths and interests, we are more likely to succeed and sharpen our skills in the process.
D. Answer the Following Questions:
1. What is the importance of experience in building self-confidence?
Answer: Experience plays an important role in building self-confidence. Gaining experience requires you to take the first step no matter how hard it may seem, and then keep practising. Each incident of success will increase your self-confidence. You will learn how to overcome obstacles and handle failures as you will notice that they are inevitable parts of process and not the end of the process.
2. Lack of self-confidence puts one in a vicious cycle. Comment and support your answer with an example.
Answer: A lack of confidence puts one in a vicious cycle, where the fear and unpreparedness prevent them from succeeding, and the failure further reinforces their sense of inadequacy leading to low self-confidence.
3. What role does parental attitude play in building one’s self-confidence?
Answer: The attitude of parents towards their child creates the first significant impact on him especially in his initial years of his life. For example, lack of love and attention, harsh physical and mental punishment, and excessive criticism and derogatory remarks on the child’s mistake can break his confidence, instil a fear of failure in him and make him hesitant to take on challenges. On the other hand, overprotecting parenting style also hampers a child’s self-confidence. It also prevents him from developing resilience and coping with stress and failure.
4. Draw a contrast between attitudes of people with low and high self-confidence.
Answer:
• Attitudes of people with low self-confidence: They are anxious about the possibility of failure. They value others’ opinion. They tend to focus on their shortcomings. They are unable to decide on priorities and focus on tasks. They don’t put in the necessary efforts. They do not feel motivated to bring about change. They are reluctant to deal with others. They focus on past failures instead of learning from experiences.
• Attitudes of people with high self-confidence: They have positive outlook. They are able to recognise their strengths and weakness at the same time. Confident people accept their mistakes rather than covering or justifying it. Moreover, they are willing to learn from it. In spite of recognising their weaknesses, they choose to focus on the opportunities to grow rather than concentrating on their shortcomings.
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