Introduction
Based on Carl Rogers, fully functioning individuals are connected with their personal and profound wishes and feelings. Schultz and Schultz (2008) show that owing to the link between an individual and the self, Rogers expresses that one recognizes their feelings and places profound trust in their character. Consequently, unrestricted positive esteem serves a serious part when the individual is an individual that is fully functioning (Schultz and Schultz, 2008). Thus, according to the concept, or thought, it means that a person that is fully functioning is conscious of every involvement since each is trickled through to their personality. Since no experience is denied or distorted, the individual lacks defensiveness since there is nothing to threaten the self-concept or to defend against (Schultz and Schultz, 2008). Being in touch with the inner self is significant since it opens the person to positive feelings like tenderness and courage and negative emotions like pain and fear (Schultz and Schultz, 2008). With this, people are more emotional in that they accept a more comprehensive range of emotions, positive and negative, and feel them more intensely.
Moreover, a fully functioning person lives richly and entirely in every moment. In other words, every experience is potentially new and fresh and cannot be anticipated or predicted. Therefore, an individual fully participates in the moments instead of merely observing them (Schultz and Schultz, 2008). Rogers shows that trust is crucial between the person and their organism. With this, Rogers means that fully functioning individuals trust their reactions instead of relying on the opinions of others for guidance; hence, no reliance on others’ intellectual judgment or social code (Schultz and Schultz, 2008). These people behave in a manner that feels right to them, which they use as their guide to act in a way that satisfies them. Rogers intended that for a fully functioning person, it meant not disregarding others or their own intelligence; he expressed the self-concept of a fully working person corresponding to every acknowledged information (Schultz and Schultz, 2008). Nothing threatens a fully functioning person since they perceive every piece of information, assess it, and weigh them accurately (Schultz and Schultz, 2008). Therefore, every decision about every behavior results from carefully considering experiential data.
People who are fully functioning regulate their options and do not experience inhibited or reserved, whose outcomes are in their intellect of control. Knowing the future depends on their decisions, Rogers shows these people rely on their actions rather than the surrounding people, events, or situations (Schultz and Schultz, 2008). People who are fully functioning are not bound by others and only conduct themselves in one manner. Due to their creativity, they live constructively and adapt to the environment as it changes around them (Schultz and Schultz, 2008). The failure to count on liberty from pressure, refuge, or certainty makes these individuals elastic and pursue new encounters and involvements. Lastly, fully functioning people encounter difficulties since their conditions are continuously tested. However, they maintain growth, strive for, and use every potential to counter the challenges and complications life brings (Schultz and Schultz, 2008).
Synopsis of Healthy Adult Personality: Gordon Allport’s Concept
Consistent with Gordon Allport, a person’s healthy character is altered from a toddler’s bodily supremacy to a grown-up’s developed mental organism. With maturity, the grown-up’s motivation is disconnected from infancy and is concerned with the future (Schultz and Schultz, 2008). In other words, healthy mature people are guided by the present while their future is based on their intentions. Once safety and fondness desires have been met in infantile, egocentrism progresses reasonably. Schultz and Schultz (2008) show that with adulthood, a character’s nature is nurtured out of infancy but no more set on or subject to childhood drives. Allport supposed that healthy individuals perform on cognizant and coherent levels since they are mindful of and regulate the controlling forces.
The well-being of grown-ups’ forthcoming and modern outlook is prospective, not regressive, to infancy fights and ordeals as with neurotics. Schultz and Schultz (2008) show the opening in well-being character and psychosis helped Allport reveal that the fixation exposed an infant’s involvements and struggles while the strong individual performs inversely and on an advanced level. Consequently, for a passionately developed, steady, and strong grown-up character, Allport defined the subsequent measures. First, a developed grown-up spreads their logic of identity to others and actions outside themselves, and second, they relay affectionately to others by displaying empathy, confidence, and acceptance (Schultz and Schultz, 2008). Schultz and Schultz (2008) show the third, a mature grown-up self-acceptance assists them realize expressive refuge, and fourth, they can embrace an accurate awareness of life, commit to some work type, and establish private abilities. Fifth, the developed grown-up advances a logic of wit and self-symbolization by realizing intuition into the identity. Sixth subscribes to a unifying life philosophy responsible for guiding their personality toward future goals (Schultz and Schultz, 2008). Achieving the measures is central to defining a working independent and expressively healthy sovereign of infantile motivations.
Rogers and Allport’s Concept: An Autobiography’s Application
Rogers’ demonstrations are that people that are fully functioning have authority over the decisions they make. In the autobiography, the author shows in section three that she secretly worked as a personal assistant to her English professor without her mother’s knowledge by following her dream to be a writer. The decision to regulate her writing empowered her to make 200 pesos for each accomplished duty. Furthermore, functioning as an author needs ingenuity, which Rogers illustrates as one of the features of a person that is fully functioning. However, in section four, the author shows that since she knew her decision to work abroad would be opposed by her family, she secretly quit teaching and went out of the country to Taiwan.
According to Allport, a mature, healthy person is always future-oriented, and the decision made in sections three, four, and five shows the author is constantly thinking of what the future holds for her. That is why she dreams of working in Canada; she is willing to deal with the challenges encountered in the sections as she aims forward. The trials encountered performing out of the Philippines, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in segment four, and in Japan in segment five bring into line with Rogers’ drawing that people who are fully functioning encounter struggle since they are continually tried.
Conclusion
In section six, the author shows that her motivation comes from focusing on the future despite the challenges faced. Her past is less significant than her future and staying focused on the present is critical. Rogers shows being in contact with the inner self contributes to the positive feelings a person experiences in life. To the author, while she encounters challenges in her professional and marital life, maintaining the connection with her inner self is critical since it will help her push forward toward her goal. Allport shows the future and contemporary outlook of healthy adults is forward. The author must maintain her focus and ensure she achieves her desire to work in Canada.
Reference
Schultz, D. E., & Schultz, S. E. (2008). Theories of personality. (9th ed.). Cengage Learning.