| The ideology of harmonious society and psychological harmony is the latest development of Chinese Marxism in21st, which indicates that harmonious society is the essence of socialism with Chinese characteristics and is the guarantee of prosperous country and national well-being; building harmonious society is the strategic mission to achieve socialistic modernization and is the common aspiration of the Party and that of the Chinese people of all ethnic groups. Psychological harmony is the further research for harmonious society, and constructing harmonious psyche is an important part of harmonious society. Harmonious society is the fundament of psychological harmony, and psychological harmony is the core of harmonious society. Factors affecting construction of harmonious psyche and society refer to the fields of politics, economics and culture. Based on the theory of relations between culture and psychology, influence of multi-culture on psychological harmony was analyzed to make contributions to the innovation and exploration of building harmonious society and psyche. Also, strategies and suggestions were proposed.With the method of theoretical and empirical analyze the theme was demonstrated with five parts.Part One, document research:The former research was reviewed and summarized. Firstly, the research achievements on multi-culture and psychological harmony were reviewed:Culture is spiritual product in the course of human social practice as well as the existence and significance of life in form of all materials, and culture is characterized by multi-element owing to the mode of existence and social formation; Harmonious psyche is individual psychological activities being attuned and united internally and to outside adaptable to society, including individual internal cognition, emotion, behaviors being in harmony and in accordance with society, nature and others from the outside. Secondly, the related literatures were retrieved. A small number of articles arguing about culture and harmonious society and few articles arguing about culture and psychological harmony were collected. Therefore, on the basis of the former research, the study about the impact of multi-culture on psychological harmony is not only theoretical innovation but also practical needs.Part Two, theoretical research:The relations between multi-culture and psychological harmony were demonstrated in theory. By use of basic principles of Marxism social psychology the related research was undertaken from such three perspectives as of sociology, psychology and cultural anthropology. Firstly, this paper traced the origin of the relations between multi-culture and psychological harmony from both Chinese and western thoughts. Secondly, this paper analyzed the relations among multiple cultures, such as material and spiritual culture, Chinese and western culture, traditional and modern culture, positive and negative culture. Thirdly, the paper explored routes of multi-culture affecting psychological harmony, such as inheritance of traditional culture, infiltration of western culture, education of modern culture and spread of mass culture; Lastly, this paper put emphasis on theoretical and practical mechanism of multi-culture affecting psychological harmony.Part Three, empirical research:influence of multi-culture on psychological harmony was analyzed with the case study of college students.Empirical objects and methods:Psychological Harmony Scales, Cultural Effect Scales were used by the random sampling in553college students of some university. With SPSS13.0software and AMOS7.0structure equation model mean value comparison, T-test were conducted for psychological harmony variables and multi-culture variables, and the multivariate regression analysis and the optimal scale were conducted as well as significance test.Empirical results and discussions:There exist differences among each of different demographic groups for cultural identity affecting psychological harmony. There are positive and negative effects for cultural selection affecting psychological harmony. There are distinctive features for cultural elements affecting psychological harmony. Personality acts as the media between multi-culture and psychological harmony. On the basis of it, Chinese traditional culture, as the leading part in constructing harmonious psyche, is the main theme of socialistic harmonious society, whose superior factors lead the way; Western modern culture, whose positive factors are significant in psychological harmony, renews and perfects Chinese traditional culture. The effect mechanism of multi-culture was elaborated. Furthermore, this paper specified different directions and functions of Chinese traditional culture and western modern culture from angles of cultural transmission routes and individuality. In addition, personal temperament acts as an intermediary.Part Four, Practical suggestions:Strategies and suggestions dealing with multi-cultural effect and establishment of harmonious psyche were proposed from the following:to make best use of the advantages and bypass the disadvantages; for Chinese traditional culture, strengthen preservation and education of superior factors, develop culture industrialization, cultural diffusion and culture production, set up and improve psychological health care network, combine individual psychological help with universal cultivation. Western culture shall be treated impersonally and reasonably. Regulation of cultural market shall be tightened under a system of laws and standards. Negative cultural factors should be prevented from undermining and disintegrating socialist value system, otherwise psychological shock would be caused. In the process of cultural education and inheritance Positive Psychology should be advocated to make the educated learn and accept traditional and foreign culture with clinical detachment (develop the useful and discard the useless), the purpose of which is to produce positive effects on construction of individual psychological harmony and cultivation of sound personality.Part five, study conclusions:achievements, conclusions, limitations and thoughts for further research.(1)Conclusions:Social culture and psychological harmony are linked tightly both in theory and practice. Multi-culture affects psychological harmony via different accesses, such as inheritance of traditional culture, infiltration of western culture and education of modern culture. There are individual differences in multi-culture effect by means of individual identity, individual selection and individual preference for multi-culture.Multi-culture leads to different effects on psychological harmony, for positive factors benefit psychological harmony, while negative ones block establishment of harmonious psyche. There exist differences among each of the different demographic groups for influence of multi-cultural factors on psychological harmony, for example, differences in sex and area groups. There is a mediator variable between multi-culture and psychological harmony, for example, personality performs an intermediary function.On the basis of theoretical and empirical analysis, we should take an active part in dealing with the impact of multi-culture scientifically and completing construction of harmonious psyche. It will contribute to individual compulsive development and it is of great benefit to social progress coordinately.(2)Achievements, limitations and thoughts for further research:This paper explored the theoretical basis of multi-culture effects on psychological harmony, and it traced the origin of relations between multi-culture and psychological harmony both from Chinese and western culture. It also explained the mechanism of multi-culture affecting psychological harmony. This paper researched on the relations between multi-culture and psychological harmony as well as individuals as the media in between. On the one hand, it enriches and develops theoretical system of psychological harmony and harmonious society. On the other hand, it provides many constructive strategies and suggestions to build up harmonious psyche and harmonious society.Influence of multi-culture on psychological harmony both in theory and practice has been researched preliminarily. But there have been some limitations and it needs further research. So this essay will go on by enlarging samples and adding more factors of multi-culture so that we can more easily figure out the way multi-culture affect individual psychological harmony, including the connotation and extension, routes, the structure and mechanism, the goal of which is to make contributions to the strategic mission building up socialistic harmonious society in theory. |
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