Indigenous and Cultural Psychology: Understanding People in Context

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A continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher. Indigenous and Cultural Psychology Understanding People in ContextEdited by Uichol KimChung-Ang University Seoul, Korea Kuo-Shu Yang Fo Guang College of Humanities and Social Sciences Ilan, Taiwan Kwang-kuo HwangNational Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan Library of Congress Control Number: 2005932042 ISBN-10: 0-387-28661-6 eISBN 0-387-28662-4 ISBN-13: 0-978-387-28661-7 Printed on acid-free paper © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now know or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. He is the author/editor of three books, three special issues of journals, and numerous articles and chapters in books. Dr. Adair's research and writing has focused on social studies of the science of psychology, addressing such topics as the social nature of human research methodology, ethics of research with human subjects, social science research policy, indigenisation and development of the discipline in developing countries, and the internationalization of psychology. E-mail: adair@Ms.UManitoba.CA.Yukari Ariizumi is a doctoral student at the Department of Social Psychology, University of Tokyo, Japan, where she received her M.A. in social psychology. Her dissertation is concerned with the psychological function of the gender-differentiated Japanese expressions. Her research interests include the effect of the Japanese sentence endings on person perception, self-identification, interpersonal relationship, and the gender stereotype particularly in Japanese culture.Vibeke Grover Aukrust is professor in educational psychology at the Institute for Educational Research at the University of Oslo. She has been doing cross-cultural research on language socialization and parental beliefs in Norway and the US and is currently directing a study of language and literacy development in Turkish minority children in Norway. She is the author of articles and chapters on socialization of childhood language, speech genres in parent-child conversation, and cultural Zhong Nian graduated from the department of psychology of Peking University in 1983, and was a lecturer in psychology at the Institute of Anthropology at Hubei Universit...

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“…The notion of general psychology is to create a broad and universal theory, while indigenous psychology focuses on understanding psychology in the social context of each nation (Kim & Park, 2006). The multiple perspectives derived from indigenous psychology can be seen as addressing different levels of the spectrum at the local culture at the time under study (Yang & Lu, 2007).…”

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“…Thus, protégés who are confidants are obligated to accept the position allocated by their mentors, regardless of whether they perceive that the assigned job is ideal. This demonstrates the collectivistic characteristic of Chinese societies, in which "collective obligations, goals, and interests take precedence over those of individuals" [50,51]. Hofstede, et al [52][53][54] also emphasized that in a collectivist society, individuals consider themselves part of the collective whole, and subject themselves to the norms and obligations imposed on them by society.…”

“…Following the catalytic process of this interaction, the personal attributes of both parties attract each other, causing one person to perceive the other as an insider (zijiren) instead of an outsider. This quasi-identity underlies the characteristics of intimacy, trust, and obligation [39].…”

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“…For example, as noted in the recent literature (Bardi & Guerra, 2010), if an individual is raised in a culture that values the ability to respond effectively and independently to life difficulties with a minimum of emotional upset, then that individual is more likely to utilize coping strategies that match this cultural ideal. There is growing recognition that Western psychological principles, developed primarily in Europe and the United States, and the theories from which these develop are culturally bound and may not accurately reflect the psychologies found in other cultures (Yang & Lu, 2007). Indigenous psychologies reportedly assert as a basic tenet an alternative scientific paradigm in the study of human behavior (Kim, Park, & Park, 1999) and have been defined as the study of human behavior and mental processes within a cultural context that relies on values, concepts, belief systems, methodologies, and other resources indigenous to the specific ethnic or cultural group under investigation (Ho, 1998).…”