SIKOLOHIYANG PILIPINO

Filipino Psychology
The psychology rooted on the experience, ideas, and cultural orientation of the Filipinos.
The theoretical framework and methodology emerge from the experiences of the people from the indigenous
culture.
Outcomes
A body of knowledge of indigenous concepts
Development of indigenous research methods
Indigenous personality testing and new direction in teaching psychology
Regulated by the Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino
1975: Dr. Virgilio Enriquez
Father of Filipino Psychology

SIKOLOHIYANG PILIPINO AS
Kapwa Psychology
An orientationenduring worldview that links to the cultural heritage of indigenous Filipino people and their
IKSP (Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices).
Liberation Psychology
Academic discipline
Representative for new awareness of Asian psychology.
First indigenous psychology ever taught at a university.
A movement
Maintains institutes of Filipino language, history, art, religion, as well as field stations and outreach programs in
many parts of the country and at campuses around the world.
The new discipline aims to balance prevailing uncritical dependence on US-centric educational models in
studying Philippine/Asian social realities.
History, language, arts, and common experience of a people of the Malay-Polynesian and Asian heritage.
Affirms the native history, values and characteristics of a region.
Develops theories, concepts and methods with the Filipino culture as source.
Emerging culture-fair models are then tried, tested and compared with standard theories and methods
in psychology.

PAGKATAONG PILIPINO (DR. VIRGILIO ENRIQUEZ)

Filipino Personhood
The value system of Philippine Psychology.
Surface Values
Core Values
Societal Values
Surface Values
1.) Accommodative Surface Values
Hiya
Loosely translated as 'shame' by most Western psychologists
Hiya is actually 'sense of propriety
Dignity
Utang na Loob
Norm of reciprocity
Filipinos are expected by their neighbors to return favorswhether these were asked for or notwhen
it is needed or wanted.
Gratitude or solidarity
 Pakikisama and Pakikipagkapwa
Smooth Interpersonal Relationship, or SIR, as coined by Lynch (1961 and 1973).
This attitude is primarily guided by conformity with the majority.

Core Values
1.) Pivotal Interpersonal Value
Pakiramdam
Shared inner perceptions of others emotions.
Filipinos use damdam as a basic tool to guide their dealings with other people
An all-important shared inner perception that compliments the shared identity of kapwa.
This steering emotion triggers the spontaneous voluntary actions that come with the sharing of the Self
Filipinos are good in sensing cues
feeling for one another, sizing up each other involves great attention to subtleties in nonverbal
behavior
Heightened sensitivity Cognitive style of Filipinos
2.) Linking Soci-personal Value
Kagandahang-loob
SHARED HUMANITY: Helping others in dire need due to a perception of being together as a part of one
Filipino humanity.
SHARED NOBILITY: Nudge a person towards genuine acts of generosity; towards a nurturing that has its
origin in genuine feeling for othersempathy.
3.) The Core Value
Kapwa
togetherness
Core construct of Filipino Psychology
Two categories: Ibang Tao (other people) and Hindi Ibang Tao (not other people)
Ibang Tao (outsider)
There are five domains in this construct:
Pakikitungo: civility
Pakikisalamuha: act of mixing
Pakikilahok: act of joining
Pakikibagay: conformity
Pakikisama: being united with the group.
Hindi Ibang Tao (one-of-us)
There are three domains in this construct:
Pakikipagpalagayang-loob: act of mutual trust
Pakikisangkot: act of joining others
Pakikipagkaisa: being one with others
Kapwa is the unity of the one-of-us and the other
Virgilio Enriquez declared the concept as a Filipino core value.
Kapwa implied moral and normative aspects that obliged a person to treat one another as fellow human beings
and therefore as equal.
Kapwa is a recognition of a shared identity, an inner self shared with others.