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A Research On Hui’s Marital Values In China

Posted on:2012-09-15Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:R BaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1227330368490175Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Constructing the Harmonious Socialism Society is the theme of the times in today’s Chinese society, while the harmonious ethnic relations are the basic of construction of the Harmonious Socialism Society. To promote communication and dialogue of culture and values among ethnic is an effective measure to achieve a harmonious ethnic relations. Hui is one of the members of big family of China. During the long time development, Hui has the unique culture and values. Hui’s marital values are not only related to personal development and family happiness, but also related to Hui social stability and development and other key issues. The researches of Hui’s marital values are seldom conducted, unable to form a systematic point of view, and the study of this issue from a psychological perspective is quite rare. About the Hui’s marital values researches are rare from psychology perspective. Therefore, the current study of values of Hui marriage and other related issues in-depth is particularly important and urgent.In view of the defects in existed researches, the present research was taken Hui minority in China as the subject, according to the reality of Hui people’s living, following the multi-perspective, multi-levels and multidisciplinary idea, conducting a systematic study on the structure, characteristics, and influence factors of Hui people’s marital values, in order to implement the transformation of research outcomes into social benefit.The whole study was composed of four parts. The first part contained that the structure of Hui’s marital values was explored and developed the Hui’s Marital Values Questionnaire, using the Hui’s Marital Values Questionnaire to investigate the status and characteristics of Hui people’s marital values. The second part was based on the reality of Hui people’s living, the influence and effects factors of the Hui’s marital values were explored according to the prominent features of Hui social change—the changes of social relationship, and the relevant questionnaires were developed and revised. In the third part the strength of religious faith, Hui’s social relationship, marital values and marriage satisfaction were integrated to explore the relationship and the effect mechanism. In the fourth part the experiment of Hui’s implicit marital values was carried in order to study the Hui’s marital values further and comprehensively.Summing up all the researches mentioned above, the main conclusions are as follows:(1) The Hui’s Marital Values Questionnaire was developed based on Rokeach’s value theory. The questionnaire is composed of marital goal sub-questionnaire and marital ways sub-questionnaire. The marital goal sub-questionnaire is composed of religious goal, marital function, marital importance and family & social orientation. The marital ways sub-questionnaire was composed of marital relationship, religious standard, standard of mate selection and lasting marriage. The self developed Hui’s Marital Values Questionnaire possess good index of psychometrics.(2)In general, Hui people valued marriage; furthermore, variables of gender, age, education, marital status, occupation, living surrounding and living types are also concerned demo graphically.(3)On the whole, Hui people have moderate or high religion; the strength of religious faith of Hui people could predict Hui’s marital values to some extent. The revised Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire possess good index of psychometrics(4)Hui’s social relationship could predict Hui’s marital values to some extent. Hui’s Social Relationship Questionnaire possess good index of psychometrics.(5)In general the Hui people marital satisfaction level is higher. The Hui’s marital values could predict Hui’s marriage satisfaction partly.(6)Hui people who had the different strength of religious faith and social relationship would have different marital values.(7)The effect mechanism of strength of religious faith, social relationship, marital values and marriage satisfaction processed the model support. The strength of religious faith effect on the marital values directly and effect on the marriage satisfaction indirectly; social relationship effect on the marriage satisfaction indirectly by effecting on the marital values directly. Also the mediating effect of strength of religious faith and social relationship are significant.(8)Hui individual’s implicit marital values tended to be positive. The implicit structure of marital values differed from the explicit one. Hui’s strength of religious faith could effect on the implicit and explicit marital values. Hui social relationship could effect on the explicit marital values, but riot implicit marital values.To sum up, this paper makes some creations and development as following:(1)In the study of perspective, from a multicultural perspective, based on the diversified and comprehensive perspective of sociology, psychology, religion and ethnology, we explored and discussed the issues deeply.(2) In the research subjects, the Hui minority persons aged 18 and older in China were the subjects, which extends the range of the subjects of the researches on marital values.(3)In the research methods, we first used the psychological method to study the Hui’s marital values and relevant issues. We also tried to integrate the quantitative and qualitative research methods, used the experimental method, interview method, and literature, questionnaire r methods to study the issue systematically and deeply and promoted the research of Hui’s marital values.(4)In the content of the research, the study focus on the structure, characteristics and influence factors, effects and the characteristics of Hui’s implicit marital values, takes a comprehensive and systemic research on the issues of Hui’s marital values.(5)In the research orientation, taking the Hui’s actualities of life into account, on the basis of the characteristics of Hui’s social changes, we purpose to solve the actuality need of minority and take a systemic investigation on Hui’s marital values; therefore, maked the research outcomes guided the practice.
Keywords/Search Tags:Hui minority, values, marital values, religion faith, social relationship, marriage satisfaction
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