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practices, Monteiro Nicole, Howard University, USA
This study examines the attitudes, beliefs and practices regarding mental illness in Ethiopia.
One-hundred and fifteen urban and rural Ethiopian participants were surveyed in the Amharic
language about their perceptions of mental illness. They fell into three occupational categories:
laypersons, healthcare workers and traditional healers. The research questionnaire was comprised
of open-ended questions about the definition and symptoms of mental illness, beliefs about its
causes and treatment preferences. The hypotheses that there would be a significant association
between occupational classification, place of residence and education and the use of spiritual,
psycho-cultural and socio-economic explanations of illness were partially supported.
5083.125 The national approbation mentality and the national origin approbation, Piao Tai-zhu,
Communist, China
Through making the social investigation on the six Korean villages surnamed Piao in Hebei and
Liaoning province of China and analysing correlative historic literature, beginning with the
relation between the national approbation mentality and the national origin, the thesis discusses
the national approbation mentality, which has not only much close contact with his own national
origin and the ancestral approbation but also the aggregate, long-term and obstinate qualities.
After more than 350 years, it is a typical instance that more than 1800 villagers in the
above-mentioned six villages requested to renew their Korean ethnic people.
5083.126 The significance of Dhyana for psychological therapy, Xinjian Wang, Shufen Xu,
Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Dhyana is crystallization of Indian rationalism, meditation and Chinese characters. It is a practical
method about humanity, in which people could fulfill their ideal personalities. Dhyana emphasizes
the following elements or stages: the establishment of belief, profund insight and psychological
experience, acquirement of the 'self', practices in daily life, from self to non-self and going
towards the beyond. Dhyana has some points same as psychoanalysis, but it stresses satori,
experience in daily practice and self-dependence. These make Dhyana different from such west
concepts as rational inference, arguemental form and external help, and be an important
complement of psychological therapy system.
5083.127 The analysis of mental state in career choice of China college graduates, Sun Li,
Guochun Shi, Huairong Mu, Shenyang Normal University, China
The crux to taking up a career lies in whether China college graduates can succeed in
accomplishing the career choice. During college graduates choose the career,there are many
unhealthy mental states, including contradictory, self-abased, self-conceited and setback mental
etc. Especially in female college graduates, they are influenced by Chinese tradition culture, hence,
there are more unhealthy mental state graduates in them. The paper attempted to analyse and study
their psychological factors in the career choice and what lead to it, which aimed at being able to
assist them to choose career successfully and healthily.
5083.130 The relationships between face and self-esteem in Japanese culture, Lin Chunchi, Eri
Shigemasu, The University of Tokyo
In cross-cultural literature, why and how Asians show inconsistent self-esteem and self-evaluation,
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