{"id":2873,"date":"2015-05-20T15:36:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T07:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org\/journal\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2015-05-20T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T07:36:41","slug":"theory-and-practice-of-the-indigenous-culture-approach-of-psychological-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org.tw\/journal\/?p=2873","title":{"rendered":"Theory and Practice of the Indigenous Culture Approach of Psychological Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chun-Hsing Chang<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Education Psychology and Counseling\u00a0Taiwan Normal University<\/p>\n

The support of establishing indigenous psychology through the indigenous research has been omnipresent in the three areas\u2014including the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan\u2014on both sides of the Taiwan Strait since the 1980s. However, the concept of \u201cindigenousness\u201d or \u201cIndigenization\u201d is rather vague. At the end of the 1990s, some psychologists in Taiwan proposed the so-called \u201cthree-area approach.\u201d They argued that because Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China have been separated for a long period of time, and the style of each society is different, therefore, there is a need for these three areas to establish their own indigenous psychology (Taiwan indigenous psychology, Mainland China indigenous psychology, and Hong Kong indigenous psychology.). This approach of psychological study is based on the premise of geography, an approach that is questionable to some extent. If psychology is viewed as a science which studies human characteristics and analyzes human behavior as presentations of his\/her characteristics, then it is easy to see that cultural factors predominate over geographical factors. Based on this consideration, this article proposes to apply psychology to the study of the indigenous cultures, and also try to investigate the rationality of the suggestion from the perspective of the evolution of psychological theories.<\/p>\n

Keywords: indigenous approach, indigenous cultural approach, cultural determinism, linguistic relativity, biological science perspective, social cultural perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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