Indigenous and cultural psychology [electronic resource] : understanding people in context / edited by Uichol Kim, Kuo-shu Yang, Kwang-kuo Hwang.

Surveys psychological and behavioral phenomena in native context in various developing and developed countries, with focus on Asia. This work clarifies culture-specific concepts (such as paternalism and the Japanese concept of amae), and models integrative methods of study. It aims to dispel typical...

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Other Authors: Kim, Ŭi-ch'ŏl, 1958-, Yang, Guoshu, 1932-, Huang, Guangguo, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer, ©2006.
Series:International and cultural psychology series.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Theoretical and methodological issues. 1. Contributions to indigenous and cultural psychology: understanding people in context / Uichol Kim, Kuo-Shu Yang & Kwang-Kuo Hwang
  • 2. The scientific foundations of indigenous and cultural psychology: the transactional approach / Uichol Kim & Young-Shin Park
  • 3. The importance of constructive realism for the indigenous psychologies approach / Fritz G. Wallner & Martin J. Jandl
  • 4. Constructive realism and Confucian relationalism: an epistemological strategy for the development of indigenous psychology / Kwang-Kuo Hwang
  • 5. From decolonizing psychology to the development of a cross-indigenous perspective in methodology: the Philippine experience / Rogelia Pe-Pua
  • II. Family and socialization. 6. Parental ethnotheories of child development: looking beyond independence and individualism in American belief systems / Carolyn Pope Edwards et al. 7. Close interpersonal relationships among Japanese: amae as distinguished from attachment and dependence / Susumu Yamaguchi & Jukari Ariizumi
  • 8. Affect and early moral socialization: some insights and contributions from indigenous psychological studies in Taiwan / Heidi Fung
  • 9. Cultures are like all other cultures, like some other cultures, like no other culture / James Georgas & Kostas Mylonas
  • III. Cognitive processes. 10. The mutual relevance of indigenous psychology and morality / Lutz H. Eckensberger
  • 11. Naive dialecticism and the tao of Chinese thought / Kaiping Peng, Julie Spencer-Rodgers & Zhong Nian
  • 12. Indian perspectives on cognition / R.C. Mishra
  • IV. Self and personality. 13. Indigenous personality research: the Chinese case / Kuo-Shu Yang
  • 14. An historic-psycho-socio-cultural look at the self in Mexico / Roland Diaz Loving
  • 15. The Chinese conception of the self: towards a person-making perspective / Yang Chung-Fang
  • 16. Naive psychology of Koreans' interpersonal mind and behavior in close relationships / Sang-Chin Choi & Kibum Kim
  • V. Application. 17. Humanism-materialism: century-long Polish cultural origins and twenty years of research in cultural psychology / Pavel Boski
  • 18. Chinese conceptions of justice and reward allocation / Zhi-Xue Zhang
  • 19. Family, parent-child relationship, and academic achievement in Korea: indigenous, cultural, and psychological analysis / Young-Shin Park & Uichol Kim
  • 20. Paternalism: towards conceptual refinement and operationalization / Zeynep Aycan
  • 21. Creating indigenous psychologies: insights from empirical social studies of the science of psychology / John G. Adair.