Subjects: Psychology >> Social Psychology submitted time 2023-09-23
Abstract： System-justifying belief pertains to perceiving the fairness and legitimacy of the existing social system. It fulfills a palliative function in safeguarding mental health through three psychological mechanisms: alleviating ideological dissonance, compensating for personal control, and denying or minimizing threats. The efficiency of these mechanisms is also shaped by contextual, individual, and temporal factors. Nevertheless, the psychological defense viewpoint overlooks the potential role of system-justifying beliefs in fostering a “coping” approach to preserve mental health. Future research should further validate and refine the defense-coping model, focus more on the adverse effects of the palliative function, enhance the measurement tools, and expand the breadth of inquiry.
Subjects: Psychology >> Social Psychology submitted time 2021-07-03
Abstract： Scholars have approached social psychology from two perspectives: a sociological one and a psychological one. Although two perspectives have mostly developed in a parallel way, both has paid much attention into a common area: societal changes and their psychological impacts. Past sociological research on Chinese societal changes has focused on two aspects: changes in society or social structure, and changes in people. The former mainly involves urbanization, changes of social class, changes of social mobility, and changes of family structure; the latter mainly involves changes of Chinese experience, social mentality, group psychology, and organizational psychology. Compared with psychological approach, sociological approach tends to adopt more emic concepts and qualitative analyses, pay more attention to group psychology as well as the influences of politics and policy, and employ more macro–historical perspective. In future studies, Chinese social psychologists from the two perspectives need to learn from and collaborate with each other, ultimately achieving a better understanding of the change of Chinese people and Chinese society.
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Subjects: Psychology >> Clinical and Counseling Psychology submitted time 2020-12-09
Abstract： Mental health literacy is a very important issue in the field of mental health research, but the concept of mental health literacy still has defects, and lack of comprehensive measurement tools of mental health literacy.Based on the reconstruction of the theoretical model of mental health literacy, this study developed a measurement tool based on this model, the Mental health literacy Questionnaire, which can evaluate all components of mental health literacy.The development of mental health literacy questionnaire has gone through four main stages: the theoretical construction of mental health literacy, the development of measurement tools, project testing and psychometrics index evaluation.The final questionnaire contains six subscales corresponding to six components of mental health literacy: knowledge and concept of mental illness;Knowledge and concepts of mental health;Attitudes and habits to deal with mental illness;Maintain and promote mental health attitudes and habits;Attitudes and habits in dealing with other people's mental illness;Attitudes and habits that maintain and promote the mental health of others.There are 60 items in the questionnaire.The results show that the mental health literacy scale has good internal consistency reliability, retest reliability, content validity, convergent validity and predictive validity.The mental health literacy scale can be used to assess individual and group levels of various components of mental health literacy.
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