The Structure Of The Wisdom And The Scale Of The Preparation

There are a lot of thoughts and understandings about wisdom in Chinese traditional culture. The Chinese scholar Wang Fengyan extracts the quintessence of wisdom from Chinese traditional culture and proposed the new theory of wisdom: integrating intelligence and morality, and makes a detailed classification of wisdom, the present study focuses on one subtype of wisdom:the wisdom in treating oneself, and intends to develop a wisdom scale under the background of Chinese culture. In addition, the study defines wisdom in treating oneself as a comprehensive mental capacity of integrating physical self-perception, moral cultivation and spiritual growth, which is acquired through experience and practice and which helps individuals to increase common good in the long run.This research mainly includes two parts:(1) Through the previous literature, in-depth interview, and consulting relevant experts, preliminarily determine the structure model of “wisdom in treating oneself”, the initial scale consists of three subscales and the initial inventory consists of 52 items;(2) The testing process of questionnaire successively in strict accordance with the two methods of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis: the first step is to use data from 290 participants and conduct exploratory factor analysis for the initial scale, delete items which don’t accord with the standard, and finally retains 27 items. Physical Self Scale can be divided into physical self management and physical self acceptance dimensions, Moral Cultivation Scale includes inner cultivation and external action, Spiritual Growth Scale includes three dimensions with the meaning of life, life values and transcendent experience. The second step, by using the method of combining the field distribution and network survey, we collect 613 valid questionnaires, and conduct a confirmatory factor analysis with a satisfying model fitting index, the wisdom scale has satisfactory reliability and validity.The main conclusions are drawn as follows:(1) Wisdom in treating oneself includes three aspects: physical self-perception, moral cultivation and spiritual growth. Physical Self Scale could be divided into physical self management and physical self acceptance dimensions, Moral Cultivation Scale includes inner cultivation and external action, Spiritual Growth Scale includes three dimensions with the meaning of life, life values and transcendent experience.(2) According to the wisdom structure model, the Wisdom in Treating Oneself Scale is proposed, which including three subscales, a total of 29 items, which has satisfying retest reliability, internal consistency reliability, criterion validity, content validity and construct validity. On the whole, the scale has satisfactory reliability and validity.(3) Wisdom in Treating Oneself Scale’s score has significant differences on the cultural level and professional factors; moral cultivation on the cultural level, professional and one month’s living expenses factors exist significant difference, spiritual growth exists differences in religious beliefs, professional; physical self has no difference on all the factors.(4) The significant correlation among self-supporting personality of youth, self-esteem and the score of core self-evaluation, Wisdom in Treating Oneself Scale and the three subscales indicates the close correlation between Wisdom in Treating Oneself and the three variables.