Psychology: A Short Note On Self Assessments

In taking the self-assessment again, I was taken back at how my scores dropped on four of the categories. The accept self-responsibility dropped by 10 points, employ interdependence dropped 2 points and gain self-awareness dropped 7 points. Adopt lifelong learning dropped by 2 points. The categories that my score went up, they only increased by one point, except for believe in themselves was the only category that it went up 4 points. Dropping a total of 21 points and only gaining a total of 6 points doesn’t seem that is a good payoff. As I wrote the following in Journal 9, gives on the how and what that I am able to figure out. Not that it is right or makes sense.
Discover self-motivation: I would say that with all the homework that was required of me, I had to find time to accomplish this. Not that it was a good exchange in doing this; I had to slack on my house cleaning and yard care, which is not a very good feeling. I am not able to be as attentive to my Mom who is 85. Convincing myself that it is okay, would be okay and not feel selfish. …show more content…
Believe in myself: That I was making the right choices in order to succeed with what is required of me in school. Even though I am neglecting my house and my Mom; it is for the greater good.
I was disappointed that my score went down so low on accept self-responsibility. It may play on the fact that with what I had to sacrifice above does not sit with me comfortably. This might be why my scores fell in areas that I had higher scores the first time. It is interesting to see that my master self-management stayed the same. I would take this as I was good with self -management prior to school and still am, indicating that I had to give up the 2 above tasks in order to manage school. All of my scores that went down or were low to start with I would like to improve