Culture‐Inclusive Theories of Self and Social Interaction: The Approach of Multiple Philosophical Paradigms

In view of the fact that culture‐inclusive psychology has been eluded or relatively ignored by mainstream psychology, the movement of indigenous psychology is destined to develop a new model of man that incorporates both causal psychology and intentional psychology as suggested by Vygotsky (1927). Following the principle of cultural psychology: “one mind, many mentalities” (Shweder et al., 1998), the Mandala Model of Self (Hwang, 2011a,b) and Face and Favor Model (Hwang, 1987, 2012) were constructed to represent the universal mechanisms of self and social interaction that can be applied to any culture; both models can be used as conceptual frameworks for analyzing mentalities of people in any given culture. Taking research works from Foundations of Chinese Psychology: Confucian Social Relation as exemplars (Hwang, 2012), this article illustrates how to construct culture‐inclusive theories of Confucianism by multiple philosophical paradigms. The mechanism of culture‐inclusive theory can be applied to explain qualitative research findings on lifeworld events of people in a particular society. It can also be utilized to predict results of quantitative research conducted to verify theoretical propositions in the scientific microworld by empirical methods.     

Variable selection for functional density trees

In this paper, the exhaustive search principle used in functional trees for classifying densities is shown to select variables with more split points. A new variable selection scheme is proposed to correct this bias. The Pearson chi-squared tests for associated two-way contingency tables are used to select the variables. Through simulation, we show that the new method can control bias and is more powerful in selecting split variable.     

Expectation–maximization algorithm for system-based lifetime data with unknown system structure

AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis - In science and engineering, we are often interested in learning about the lifetime characteristics of the system as well as those of the components that made...     

实践认识与理论认识的区别

为加深理解马克思主义哲学的实践特征,针对当前我国哲学界很少研究理论认识和实践认识之关系的现状,在参考已有文献的基础上运用思辩的方法进行研究,提出理论认识和实践认识有以下主要区别：一是直接性与间接性;二是基础性与依存性;三是在知识单元上以感性形象和理性抽象为基础;四是在扩展知识的主要认识形式上的感知、抽象和分析、综合.     

Immigrant/Minority Status and Alienation

Abstract

Seeking to clarify the relationship between immigrant/minority status and alienation, the theoretical elements of immigrant/minority status were first examined. Data gathered from a sample of Chinese-Americans was then used in a causal analysis incorporating these minority and immigrant characteristics as predictors of alienation. The data showed that the alienation of the Chinese-American was not uniformly and directly related to his minority and immigrant characteristics as previous researches indicated. Distinctive patterns of alienation were found with regard to foreign-born and the American-born Chinese. The analysis results suggest that the relationship between immigrant/minority characteristics and alienation is sufficiently complicated to warrant further investigation.     

Generalized james-stein estimatoes

Let the p-component vector X be normally distributed with mean θ and covariance σ²I where I denotes the identity matrix. Stein's estimator of θ is kown to dominate the usual estimator X for p ≥ 3, We obtain a family of estimators which dominate Stein's estimator for p≥ 3     

The Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Other Trauma on Drug Court Participants

Within the context of a larger study of drug court participants, this study examined the impact of traumatic experiences on psychiatric distress and on court outcomes. In the analyses, the participants (n = 229) were separated into 3 groups: childhood sexual abuse (CSA; n = 18), other trauma (n = 134), and no trauma (n = 77). The CSA group had higher mean scores on depression, anxiety, panic disorder, social phobia, somatization, and posttraumatic stress disorder than the other trauma group. Path analyses suggest that a history of trauma is a positive predictor of psychiatric distress and negative court events (positive urine screens, sanctions, etc.), with indirect effects on substance abuse severity, and failure in the drug court. These results suggest a need for the initial assessment procedure in drug courts to include a screening for trauma history, including CSA. They also suggest a need for trauma-informed care within drug courts.