Le-Shan Lai
Institute of Human Resource Management National Central University
Henry S.R. Kao
Institute of Human Resource Management National Central University
“Personality” is the response of social lifestyle and culture. Therefore, with the development of “modernization”, the structure of personality must be rearranged. If its rearrangement couldn’t respond to the requirements of the social lifestyle, we would have problems in adaptation and mental troubles. For decades, we have created a miracle on economy and democracy in Taiwan, but this development seems to have produced some evil effects on our mental and physical health. This essay aims at the relation between Chinese indigenous personality and mental health. We summed up three essays about the same theme with our research. And we adopted “Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory”, a questionnaire with Chinese feature, to discuss how Chinese indigenous personality affects people’s mental health, and further, to discuss differences between Taiwan and China.
Keywords: Chinese indigenous personality, Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI), Ren Qing(relationship orientation), family orientation, harmony, face, mental health