Department of Thanatology and Health Counseling, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan.
Department of Education, National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan.
PLoS One. 2022 Jul 6;17(7):e0271030. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271030. eCollection 2022.
Demoralization has become increasingly prevalent among college students who have lost motivation in life and feel hopeless about their future. Many college students who demonstrate symptoms of demoralization are neglected because they might fail to typical symptoms of depression. Taiwanese college students are simultaneously influenced by bicultural-self system, such as individual- and social-oriented views of self, which vary considerably in the view of self, achievement motivation, and the value of self-realization, and may even create contradictory expectations and behavioral standard. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent of the relationship between attitude towards demoralization, individual- and social-oriented views of self. Three-hundred fifty-six college students completed the online questionnaire, which was designed to explore their demoralization status and cultural differences. Four groups were divided into bicultural self, individual-oriented self, social-oriented self, and unintegrated self. Bicultural group demonstrated significantly lower demoralization overall scores than other groups. Moreover, the five dimensions of demoralization in college students were mostly significantly and negatively correlated with individual- and social-oriented views of self, indicating that college students' bicultural views of self may contribute to or prevent demoralization.
大学生的道德颓废现象日益普遍，他们对生活失去了动力，对未来感到绝望。许多表现出道德颓废症状的大学生被忽视了，因为他们可能没有典型的抑郁症状。台湾大学生同时受到双文化自我系统的影响，如自我的个体和社会导向观点，这些观点在自我、成就动机和自我实现的价值观方面存在很大差异，甚至可能产生矛盾的期望和行为标准。本研究旨在探讨道德颓废态度与个体和社会导向的自我观点之间的关系程度。356 名大学生完成了在线问卷，旨在探讨他们的道德颓废状况和文化差异。将四个组分为双文化自我、个体导向自我、社会导向自我和非整合自我。双文化组的整体道德颓废得分明显低于其他组。此外，大学生道德颓废的五个维度与个体和社会导向的自我观点大多呈显著负相关，表明大学生的双文化自我观点可能有助于或预防道德颓废。
