The Relationships Between The Zhong-yong Practical Thinking Style, Resilience And Social Adaptation

Zhong-yong as one of the core of Chinese traditional culture, had deduced and discarded thousands of years with traditional culture, have been deeply into chinese psychological and behavior, which affected chinese thinking mode, the behavior way, knowledge structure, become the dominant and people's psychology, behavior, and the strength of daily life." Zhong-yong " its essence is a kind of practical thinking, was the basic principle of people conducts oneself in society of philosophy, however, lack of psychology related empirical research. It is extremely important significance to deeply explore and explain the mechanisms which zhong-yong practical thinking style plays a Positive role in improving social adaptation by Chinese sample.This study took the research method of questionnaire, 840 undergraduate and graduate students took part in this study, which was used to explore the relationship among zhong-yong practical thinking style, resilience and social adaptation. Two studies are conducted in this Paper:In first Part, we developed a zhong-yong practical thinking style scale. We developed zhong-yong practical thinking style on the basis of the theory of zhong-yong practical thinking style and relevant studies on zhong-yong by the method of questionnaires.In the second Part, we conducted the correlation research among zhong-yong practical thinking style, resilience and social adaptation. We collected data from university students by using several questionnaires to assess potential psychological mechanisms of zhong-yong practical thinking style and social adaptation, and tried to verify the mediating effect among zhong-yong practical thinking style, resilience and social adaptation.The results were found as follows:(1) The zhong-yong practical thinking style scale consisted of 22 items, including three dimensions like interpersonal relation zhong-yong practical thinking style, event zhong-yong practical thinking style, and self zhong-yong practical thinking style.(2) The zhong-yong practical thinking style scale has good reliability and validity, and is suitable to measure the sort and intensity of zhong-yong practical thinking style in different gender, grade, and even area of Chinese college students. (3) The correlation analysis on zhong-yong practical thinking style, resilience and social adaptation shows that have a remarkably positive correlation among them.(4) In the direct effect detected, zhong-yong practical thinking style had significant predictability on both resilience and social adaptation, and also resilience had significant predictability on resilience.(5) In intermediary effect detected, zhong-yong practical thinking style did not have significant direct effect on social adaptation, resilience plays complete intermediary role between the zhong-yong practical thinking style and social adaptation.Research results suggested that zhong-yong practical thinking style can be researched from the Angle of empirical psychology perspective. This study had developed a zhong-yong practical thinking style scale with wide applicability. Zhong-yong practical thinking style had a positive impact on individual resilience and social adaptation. Zhong-yong contributed to zhong-yong practical thinking style through the way of humanity, resilience enhanced during the process of practicing the zhong-yong thinking, and improved individual Coping ability, consequently, social adaptability been boosted.