儒家式应对思想及其对心理健康的影响

Confucian Coping and Its Role to Mental Health

研究中国人的应对有两种思路,一是以西方应对理论为研究基础,二是从中国社会文化现状构造研究依据。文章首先分析了儒家式应对的内容和特征,进而编制了儒家式应对问卷。530个样本的数据分析表明,儒家式应对包括4个因素:挫折内在乐观性、“命”认识、人的责任性、挫折作用评价。儒家式应对与本研究中体现心理健康的CES-D、SAS、SWLS有确切的关系,儒家式应对思想有利于心理健康。文章最后讨论了儒家式应对在心理健康中的作用机制。

This article highlighted that theoretically there were two approaches to study Chinese coping in Chinese social background. One was based on the coping theories of the west psychology. The other should be based on the nature of Chinese culture. This article was focused on the latter. Confucian coping was proposed with consideration that Confucianism has been the mainstream of Chinese culture. Confucian coping emphasizes that adversity or stress can help individuals growing by which it is chance to develop trait and ability to become an achievement person. The features of Confucian coping are pro-frustration, spiritual, whole and developmental. On this theoretical analysis the Confucian coping questionnaire was developed. The CES - D,SAS,SWLS were chosen as index of mental health. The data of 530 participants showed there were positive relations between Confucian coping and mental health. Exploratory factor Analysis showed that the Confucian coping has 4 factors ： optimism in the adversity, the viewpoints to ＂fate＂, the responsibility as human beings, the role of adversity to individual growing. The mechanism of Confucian coping to mental health was discussed.