Self-Cultivation Tendency Of Chinese People: Structure,Measurement,and Its Relationship To Mental Health

Self-change is great significance to an individual’s life,and it often promote the individual to improve the current status and develop in a better direction.Western scholar named it personal growth initiative.Although the scale developed from this concept has been proved to be culturally adaptable in China,it cannot explain self-cultivation advocated by China.Therefore,in the first study,we put forward the concept of self-cultivation tendency according to the cultural characteristics of China.According to the expectancyvalue theory and the mandala model of self,it is composed of motivation and behavior,and the corresponding scale is developed from those theory.In the second study,the differences in the self-cultivation tendency among different groups were compared by means of questionnaires,and the discrimination validity of the self-cultivation tendency scale was verified again.The third study is to explore the predictive effect of self-cultivation tendency on mental health by means of a questionnaire survey.The results show that the self-cultivation tendency scale is divided into two parts:motivation and behavior.Motivation is composed of self-cultivation belief and selfcultivation efficacy,and behavior is composed of active learning,behavioral practice and self-reflection.The scale has good reliability and validity,and can be used as an effective scale to measure the level of self-cultivation tendency of adults in Chinese culture.In addition,different groups have different levels of self-cultivation tendencies,among which psychological counselors and individuals who practice self-cultivation will show higher levels.In the study to explore the predictive effect of self-cultivation tendency on mental health,the results showed that after controlling for personality factors(extroversion,neuroticism and openness)and social support,self-cultivation tendency still had an independent predictive effect on resilience,but it was no independent predictor of subjective well-being.After controlling for personal growth initiative,self-cultivation tendency still had an independent predictive effect on resilience,but it had no independent predictive effect on subjective well-being.The concept of self-cultivation tendency is put forward to expand the localized research in the field of self-improvement in China.The self-cultivation tendency scale provides a scientific and effective measuring tool for measuring the level of individual selfcultivation in China.By exploring the differences in self-cultivation tendencies between different groups,it is proved that individuals who consciously self-improvement can change their own state.On this basis,through the exploration of self-cultivation tendency and mental health level,it not only confirmed that self-cultivation tendency can effectively predict positive psychological characteristics,but also provided new theoretical basis and reference ideas for psychological counselors to help clients improve their mental health by promoting self-cultivation tendency.