Progress in Asian Social Psychology
Conceptual and Empirical Contributions
Paul Pedersen author Kuo-Shu Yang author Kwang-Kuo Hwang author Ikuo Daibo author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:30th Mar '03
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Gives the scientific community of international psychology a new understanding of how Asian psychologists study the behavior and psychology of their own people via methods of the indigenous perspective.
This volume presents ways of thinking dramatically different from mainstream psychology, which is seen by many as primarily a product of Western civilization. Asian social psychologists in this edited collection apply Asian perspectives to issues of major concern in their societies, including parental beliefs about shame and moral socialization in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States; achievement motivation in Taiwan and the United States; and the effects of school violence on the psychological adjustment of Korean adolescents. Other chapters examine the role of social psychologists in Confucian societies, and group dynamics in Japan. The authors believe psychological research using an indigenous approach will enable Asian as well as non-Asian psychologists to understand the cognitions and behaviors of Asian people more accurately.
Scholars and students interested in Asian psychology, social, cultural and cross-cultural psychology will find this volume of interest.
ISBN: 9780313324635
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344 pages