Faculty of Humanities, Psychology Department, Cornerstone Institute, Cape Town 7441, South Africa.
Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom 2526, South Africa.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 21;19(3):1165. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19031165.
This paper is an attempt to bridge the gap between Africentric and Eurocentric worldviews through the lens of positive psychology's second wave of attaining pathways to well-being.
The overcoming of existential suffering with indigenous understandings has been addressed through photo-elicitation in retrospective timelines with students Lihile+, Tanaka+, and Diana+, +Pseudonyms to protect identity Thematic analysis with semi-structured virtual interviews has also been utilized to gain insights into Africentric and Eurocentric worldviews. All students come from different contexts of cultural complexity. Lihile was raised by her maternal Xhosa family, with a traditional Sotho father. Tanaka is Shona, born and schooled in Zimbabwe, studying in South Africa. Diana was born in England and is now living in rural KwaZulu-Natal.
Students' worldviews were shaped by their primary caregivers' multicultural influences, as well as their exposure to educational and religious contact zones. Despite having to survive the traumatic legacy of social injustices, the students managed to pursue positive goals and transcend challenges and achieve well-being.
This study attempted to transcend the divide of Afri-Eurocentric worldviews towards a shared responsibility to develop an improved social science in Africa. Positive psychology offered a space to accommodate well-being as a healing process, not only for the oppressed but also the oppressors of past social injustices.
本文试图通过积极心理学第二波实现幸福的途径,从非洲中心主义和欧洲中心主义世界观的角度来弥合这一差距。
通过对学生 Lihile+、Tanaka+和 Diana+的照片回忆时间线,利用本土理解来克服存在主义痛苦,其中使用了假名来保护身份。还利用半结构化虚拟访谈进行了主题分析,以深入了解非洲中心主义和欧洲中心主义世界观。所有学生都来自文化复杂性的不同背景。Lihile 由她的 Xhosa 母亲家庭抚养长大,父亲是传统的 Sotho 人。Tanaka 是绍纳人,出生和在津巴布韦接受教育,现正在南非学习。Diana 出生在英国,现居住在夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省的农村地区。
学生的世界观受到其主要照顾者的多元文化影响以及他们接受教育和宗教接触区的影响。尽管学生们不得不承受社会不公正的创伤性遗留问题,但他们还是设法追求积极的目标,超越挑战,实现幸福。
本研究试图超越非洲-欧洲中心主义世界观的分歧,共同承担起在非洲发展改进的社会科学的责任。积极心理学为幸福提供了一个被视为治愈过程的空间,不仅为受压迫者,也为过去社会不公正的压迫者提供了一个空间。