A Qualitative Exploration of Chinese Self-Love

Although self-love is an important topic, it has not been viewed as appropriate for psychological research, especially in China. We conducted two studies to understand how Chinese people view self-love. In the first study, we surveyed 109 Chinese people about the dimensions of self-love using an open-ended questionnaire. In the second study, 18 participants were selected by means of intensity sampling and interviewed about the connotations and structure of Chinese self-love. The two studies revealed three important aspects of the Chinese understanding of self-love: (1) self-love has four dimensions: self, family, others, and society; (2) it comprises five components: self-cherishing, self-acceptance, self-restraint, self-responsibility, and self-persistence; and (3) the five components of self-love are linked together to form a stable personality structure. The reliability and validity of the two studies were strong. Finally, the results showed that Chinese self-love is dominated by Confucian culture, which provides guiding principles for how to be human. At the same time, it shows that there are differences in the understanding of self-love between Chinese and Western cultures, which provides an empirical basis for further research based on cross-cultural psychology and self-love psychology.

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Replication and Reproducibility in Cross-Cultural Psychology

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology ◽

10.1177/0022022117744892 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 49 (5) ◽

pp. 735-750 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Taciano L. Milfont ◽

Richard A. Klein

Keyword(s):

Cross Cultural Psychology ◽

Cultural Psychology ◽

Current Psychological Research ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Academic Misconduct ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Cultural Research ◽

Cross Cultural Research ◽

Research Populations ◽

Current Psychological

Replication is the scientific gold standard that enables the confirmation of research findings. Concerns related to publication bias, flexibility in data analysis, and high-profile cases of academic misconduct have led to recent calls for more replication and systematic accumulation of scientific knowledge in psychological science. This renewed emphasis on replication may pose specific challenges to cross-cultural research due to inherent practical difficulties in emulating an original study in other cultural groups. The purpose of the present article is to discuss how the core concepts of this replication debate apply to cross-cultural psychology. Distinct to replications in cross-cultural research are examinations of bias and equivalence in manipulations and procedures, and that targeted research populations may differ in meaningful ways. We identify issues in current psychological research (analytic flexibility, low power) and possible solutions (preregistration, power analysis), and discuss ways to implement best practices in cross-cultural replication attempts.

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Escape from Kantian Eurocentric bias in cross-cultural psychology

Culture & Psychology ◽

10.1177/1354067x20922145 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 863-878

Author(s):

Kwang-Kuo Hwang

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Cross Cultural Psychology ◽

Cultural Psychology ◽

Academic Community ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Confucian Ethics ◽

Chinese People ◽

Mental Set ◽

The Impact

Taking Kant’s misjudgment on Confucian silver rule as the point for first cut, this article is designated to illustrate the fallacy of imposed Orientalism prevailing in mainstream cross-cultural psychology which tends to understand non-Western cultures by a mental set of dualism with a tendency of Westcentrism, particularly the popular research on individualism-collectivism. This type of Euro-centric or Westcentric misjudgments are very common in Western social sciences, for instance, Confucian ethics are frequently described as particularistic in consideration of the distinction between universalism and particularism made by Parsons . In order to help the international academic community to escape from the trap of Eurocentric bias, this article will argue for and illustrate its characteristic of contextualized universalism step by step on the basis of Hwang’s previous research. Finally, the meaning of constructing scientific microworld of Confucian ethics will be discussed to explain how Chinese people are facing the impact of Western cultured during the globalization age of multiculturalism.

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