Hong Kong Polytechnic University, SAR, China.
J Pers. 2013 Feb;81(1):61-75. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00791.x. Epub 2013 Jan 2.
We applied the concept of naïve dialecticism (Peng & Nisbett, ), which characterizes East Asians' greater tendency to encompass contradictory, ever-changing, and interrelated features of an entity, to bicultural contexts and examined its effects on psychological well-being across various acculturating groups.
We administered questionnaire measures of the dialectical self, bicultural identity integration (BII; Benet-Martínez & Haritatos, 2005), and well-being to Hong Kong Chinese (N = 213) in Study 1 and Mainland Chinese (N = 239) in Study 2. In Study 3, a 4-week longitudinal study was conducted among Hong Kong Chinese (N = 173) to test the relationships of these variables over time. We then extended similar measures to new immigrants from Mainland China (N = 67) in Study 4 and Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong (N = 153) in Study 5.
Five studies converged to show that psychological adjustment was positively related to BII, but negatively related to the dialectical self. In Studies 1-3, dialecticism mediated the effect of BII on psychological adjustment among Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese bicultural individuals.
Our findings reveal the deleterious effects of tolerance for contradiction on well-being and differentiate biculturalism patterns of immigration-based and globalization-based acculturation.
我们将天真辩证法（Peng & Nisbett，）的概念应用于双文化背景中，该概念的特点是东亚人更倾向于包容一个实体的矛盾、不断变化和相互关联的特征，并考察了其对不同适应群体的心理健康的影响。
在研究 1 中，我们对 213 名香港中国人和在研究 2 中对 239 名中国大陆中国人进行了问卷调查，测量了辩证自我、双文化认同整合（BII；Benet-Martínez & Haritatos，2005）和幸福感。在研究 3 中，对 173 名香港中国人进行了为期 4 周的纵向研究，以测试这些变量随时间的关系。然后，我们在研究 4 中向中国大陆新移民（N=67）和香港菲律宾家政工人（N=153）扩展了类似的测量方法。
五项研究一致表明，心理调整与 BII 呈正相关，与辩证自我呈负相关。在研究 1-3 中，辩证主义在香港和中国大陆的双文化个体中，调节了 BII 对心理健康的影响。
我们的发现揭示了对矛盾的宽容对幸福感的有害影响，并区分了基于移民和全球化的文化适应的双文化模式。
