http://dx.doi.org/10.6129/CJP.2010.5202.01
Chinese Journal of Psychology 2010, Vol.52, No.2, 113-132
楊國樞（中原大學心理學系暨心理科學研究中心）；劉奕蘭（國立交通大學教育研究所）；張淑慧（中原大學心理學系）；王 琳（中原大學心理學系）
摘要
近百年來，歷經現代化的社會變遷，華人在思想觀念、動機需求、態度價值、氣質性格、及行為模式等方面，皆已產生廣泛而重大的轉化。影響所及，人們一方面仍保持中國傳統農業社會的若干心理與行為特徵，同時也逐漸形成西方現代工商社會中的若干心理與行為特徵，合而成為一種兼具心理傳統性與現代性的雙文化自我。本文之主要目的是構想一套華人雙文化自我之個體發展階段的理論。首先，我們小幅修改Jane Loevinger （1976, 1983）的自我發展理論，作為個人取向自我發展的五階段模式：(1)前順從階段、(2)順從階段、(3)個人主義化公正階段、(4)自主階段、及(5)個人主義化統合階段。與此五階段相對應之社會取向自我發展的五階段則為：(1)前順從階段、(2)順從階段、(3)集體主義化公正階段、(4)融合階段、及(5)集體主義化統合階段。兩套發展模式之最早的兩個階段相同，後三個階段則不同，因此可用Y型架構予以整合：前兩個階段置於Y型的柄部，後三個階段則分別放在Y型的左右兩臂。最後，本文並提出以實徵方法驗證此一Y型發展階段理論的具體建議。
關鍵詞：社會取向自我發展、個人取向自我發展、華人自我四元論、雙文化自我發展、雙文化自我發展Y型模式
Constructing a Theoretical Framework for the Ontogenetic Development of the Chinese Bicultural Self: A Preliminary Statement
Kuo-Shu Yang（Department of Psychology and Research Center for Psychological Science, Chung Yuan Christian University）；Yih-Lan Liu（Research Institute of Education, National Chiao Tung University）；Shu-Hui Chang（Department of Psychology, Chung Yuan Christian University）；Lin Wang（Department of Psychology, Chung Yuan Christian University）
Abstract
Cultural ecological research has demonstrated that different ecological environments tend to create different forms of subsistence economy, which in turn make various types of society and culture possible. Thus, agrarian economy facilitates the formation of agricultural society and collectivistic-oriented culture, whereas industrial economy eases the development of industrialized society and individualistic-oriented culture. In order to help the members in these two contrasting types of society and culture to acquire the motives, thoughts, aptitudes, values, temperaments, and behaviors necessary for effectively functioning in their respective subsistence economies, distinctive patterns of socialization practices have to be designed and promoted. The causal sequence as postulated in the above is as follows: Ecological environments → subsistence economies → societies and cultures → socialization practices → psychological and behavioral characteristics. During the long process of societal modernization in Chinese societies (especially Taiwan and Hong Kong) in the last hundred years or so, both traditional agrarian and modern industrial economies have been coexisting for so long a time that a bicultural society has been gradually formed in each of them. In such a society, the collectivistic-oriented and individualistic-oriented cultural elements or aspects are mixed, or even integrated, in daily activities and practices. The traditional-modern bicultural society tends to actualize a bicultural kind of socialization practice, which in turn leads to a bicultural pattern of psychological and behavioral characteristics. In a bicultural society like Taiwan or Hong Kong, people need a bicultural self to integrate their bicultural psychological and behavioral characteristics. Yang (2004) and Lu and Yang (2006) called such a kind of self the traditional-modern bicultural self. Yang proposed that the Chinese bicultural self consists of both the traditional, socialoriented self and the modern, individual-oriented one in accordance with his four-part theory of the Chinese self. The former is further divided into three subselves, respectively labeled as the relationship-, the familistic (group)-, and the other-oriented self. In this paper, a Y-shaped model of the developmental stages for the Chinese bicultural self is proposed. First of all, we slightly modify Jane Loevinger’s (1976, 1983) six-stage model of ego development to form a five-stage one for the ontogenetic development of the individual-oriented self: (1) Preconformity Stage, (2) Conformity Stage, (3) Individualistically Conscientious Stage, (4) Autonomous Stage, and (5) Individualistically Integrated Stage. In contrast to this model, a five-stage one for the development of the social-oriented self is constructed to include the following corresponding stages: (1) Preconformity Stage, (2) Conformity Stage, (3) Collectivistically Conscientious Stage, (4) Homonomous Stage, and (5) Collectivistically Integrated Stage. The earliest two stages are identical in the two five-stage models, whereas the later three in one model are diametrically different, in one way or another, from the corresponding ones in the other. It is thus possible to place the early two stages on the stem of the Y-form layout. Beyond the intersection point, the later three successive stages for the social-oriented self are placed on the left arm, and the corresponding three for the individual-oriented self on the right one. A Y-shaped developmental model for the Chinese bicultural self is thus conceptually proposed. The defining psychological (cognitive, motivational, affectional, and intentional) and behavioral characteristics of such a self are described for each stage on the stem and the two arms, so that the empirical test of this Y-form developmental model of the Chinese self could be made feasible. Finally, some preliminary recommendations for empirically testing the Y-model of bicultural-self development are made. It is suggested that the whole age range for the participants to be used should be from 3 to 70 years old, and this range may be divided into three age groups: (1) kindergarten children and 1-4 grade pupils, (2) 5-6 grade pupils and junior and senior high school students, and (3) college students and ordinary adults. The validity of the Y-model will be tested by using participants from the three age groups in three consecutive years in Taiwan and Mainland China.
Keywords: four-part theory of Chinese self, individual-oriented self development, social-oriented self development, traditional-modern bicultural self, Y-model of bicultural-self development
