Zhen-Dong Wang

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · School of Basic Medical Sciences

Using original texts of Confucian and Taoist primary classics as materials, we conducted an eight-week educational intervention experiment combining classroom teaching and post-class reflection as cultural manipulation. Ninety-four sixth-grade students from three parallel mainstream classes were randomly assigned to three intervention groups, compr...

As the primary value system in Chinese culture for almost 2,000 years, Confucianism has profoundly influenced the mindset of Chinese people. Cultural psychology studies have highlighted that individuals with different cultural backgrounds vary in their preferences for certain personality traits, such as self-construal, and their metacognitive chara...

Traditional Chinese culture is commonly viewed as a trinity of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Originally emerging from the Book of Changes, the concept of Taiji has a profound interactive influence with Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist thought in the history of Chinese philosophy. Because the construction of self-models is often closely related...

Wisdom views in different cultural contexts are closely connected with the corresponding culture’s worldview. Some results are found by comparing the wisdom concepts in Chinese and Western cultures: Firstly, the early wisdom concepts, both in China and the West, contain the elements of intelligence and virtue. Whereas, from the Enlightenment to the...

Embodied Imagination, which was proposed by Dutch psychologist Robert Bosnak, is a dreamwork technique. By re-experiencing the dream images in a dual-state and triggering body feelings, the contents of unconsciousness could be revealed consciously, and thus achieving the therapeutic goal. This article systematically expounds the theoretical basis a...

自我是人格心理学和社会心理学的重要研究主题。自文化心理学兴起以来，构建契合中国社会、历史与文化特质的自我理论，成为众多华人心理学者努力的目标。这些探讨华人自我的理论或模型可分为个体- 集体、差序格局取向以及源生模型取向三类取向。厘清华人自我理论的发展轮廓和脉络，有助于多方位、立体性理解华人自我观的丰富内涵，为进一步研究华人自我奠定坚实基础。

Anaphora is an essential means of maintaining textual coherence, the phenomenon of replacing one word or phrase in the preceding part of a discourse with another. At least two crucial stages are involved in anaphor processing: bonding and resolution. The links between the anaphor and potential antecedents are established in the former stage, which...

“意象体现”是分析心理学中的一种“梦的工作”方法。通过系统溯源意象体现理论秉承的哲学基础，分析其方法发挥治愈作用的因素，可以发现：意象体现以现象学的主要观点为基本原则，借鉴了复杂性理论中的复杂系统假设及“涌现”方法论，并受到了中国道家思想的启发与影响；意象体现可借由“超越性功能”促进“自性化”，以实现人格整合；而在神经生理学层面上，对梦中意象的想象性工作，有助于内隐创伤记忆的修复和重构。

Objective: This study aimed to examine the relationship between cognitive function and depressive symptoms and to explore the mediating role of sleep quality in the cognition-depression relationship in Chinese older adults (OAs). Methods: Data came from a nationally representative sample of 16,209 Chinese OAs (aged 65+) from 2008, 2011, 2014, an...

为探究正念、个人成长主动性与智慧推理之间的关系，采用五因素正念量表、个人成长主动性量表与情境智慧推理量表对242 名18~24 岁成年早期的大学生进行调查。研究发现：正念与智慧推理水平间存在显著的正相关，个人成长主动性在正念与智慧推理的正相关中发挥部分中介的作用。本文从智慧推理的动态发展角度，为通过正念干预手段开展智慧教育的可能性提供依据。

“为善去恶”是王阳明“四句教”中生活德育思想的集中体现。为善去恶中的善恶观源于本心的良知,要求以良知作为道德判断的标准,坚持以人为本的德育观。为善去恶的过程中要顺应学生的天性,坚持知行合一的原则。为善去恶之初要静坐,之后要在日常生活中不断进行道德实践,并自我反省,其德育思想对当前道德教育实践有着诸多启发。

The present study aimed to explore the relationship between shadow and psychological symptoms by analyzing shadow miniatures in sandplay therapy. A total of 121 subjects were invited to complete an initial sand tray. The category of shadow miniatures was defined by a questionnaire administered to 22 trained sandplay consultants with practical exper...

The present study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the revised Filial Maturity Measure (FMM) in a sample of Chinese adults and examine the influence of gender, age and life course transitions (i.e., marital status and having children or not) on various dimensions of filial maturity. In Study 1, according to a review of current li...

Based on the construction of the "Taiji Model of Confucian Self" that aims to explain self-structure, the progression of self-cultivation and the dominion of person-making in the context of Chinese Confucian culture, according to the ideas of Taoism and Buddhism, the present study develops the "Taiji Model of Taoist Self" and the "Taiji Model of Bu...

How does “being towards death” influence wisdom? There are three main perspectives with respective evidences and mechanisms to answer this question. (1) Being towards death makes people humble, transcend, altruistic, fair and tolerant, etc. The mechanism behind it is the post-traumatic growth theory; (2) Being towards death makes people mentally un...

《荣格与中国文化》通过对荣格思想及分析心理学理论的分析，详细阐释了荣格对中国文化的接纳以及其与中国各思想流派的渊源，系统地梳理并展现了中国文化对荣格产生的影响以及分析心理学理论中富含的中国文化精神与中国哲学原理。该书采取了完整而系统的研究视角，横向与纵向相结合的内容结构，有效地厘清和把握了荣格与中国文化之间的联系;采用了文献研究、访谈调查与实地勘察相结合的多样化研究方法，全面而充分地分析了相关史料，具有较高的学术创新性。该书的价值在于，加深了对中国文化心理学价值的探索，并致力于促进中西文明之间的沟通，因此具有深远的意义。

Building on Habermas’s worldview, this paper attempts to construct a theory of wisdom that integrates the advantages of Eastern and Western cultures. To this end, we review previous definitions of wisdom and their problems and analyze the importance of worldview for wisdom. A worldview provided by the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas is eminently...

An important theme in the development of self-psychology is the attempt by scholars to construct a self-model with universal cultural adaptability. Among them, representatives are the tripartite model of self-built by Triandis, the theory of the independent self and interdependent self-proposed by Markus and Kitayama, Yang Kuo-Shu's four-part theor...

Chinese philosophical Daoism (Taoism) and religious Daoist culture made unique contributions to different scientific areas and technology in ancient China. This paper includes five parts. Part 1 addresses "Dao, Qi and basic Daoist scientific ideas, such as the theory of "Treatises on Daoist Noumenon (Dao Ti theory)," which provides an ideological b...

Empathy, a psychological phenomenon that the individual shares and understands the emotions and feelings of others, is a motive source of moral and altruistic behavior. As the main part of Chinese traditional culture, Confucianism contains a profound theoretical meaning and a vivid practical significance of the empathy concept. Standing in the poin...

Objective: To explore the effect of family concern and positive emotion on psychological resilience in float⁃ ing children. Methods: Family-APGAR, Positive Affect schedule and the Resilience Scale for Chinese Adolescents (RSCA) were applied to 406 floating children. Results: 1). Family concern positively predicted positive emotion(β=0.281, P<0.01)....