Psychological structure of social mindfulness in Chinese culture

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1041.2021.01003

Abstract

Abstract:

In order to explore the psychological structure of Chinese social mindfulness, this paper adopted the personality vocabulary method, selected the mental words which represent social good thoughts from the vocabulary collected by the open investigation, and established the social mindfulness lexicon. Through two exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, the social mindfulness vocabulary scale with 18 personality traits and the social mindfulness self-report scale with 17 descriptions were obtained. Through lexical analysis and psychometric analysis, we explored the psychological structure of social mindfulness in Chinese culture, which contains two second-order factors and four first-order factors. In this model, the two second-order factors were agreeableness and extraversion, and the four first-order factors were kindness and respect, humility, inclusive and understanding, and positive and open.

Key words: social mindfulness, psychological structure, lexical method, Chinese culture

TIAN Yi, WANG Li, XU Yan, JIAO Liying. (2021). Psychological structure of social mindfulness in Chinese culture. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 53(9), 1003-1017.

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Items	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Degree of Community
Polite	0.90			0.75
Respectful	0.86			0.70
Responsible	0.86			0.70
Honest	0.85			0.59
Reasonable	0.69			0.63
Kind	0.66			0.61
Humility	0.55			0.55
Inclusive		0.71		0.50
Empathetic		0.67		0.43
Transpositional Thinking		0.58		0.50
Helpful		0.60		0.65
Comity		0.75		0.67
Altruistic		0.79		0.48
Extroverted			0.89	0.60
Confident			0.79	0.66
Positive			0.65	0.63
Optimistic and cheerful			0.62	0.61
Open-minded			0.61	0.61
Eigenvalues	8.27	1.38	1.22
contribution rate %	45.94	7.64	6.78
Cumulative contribution rate %	45.94	53.58	60.36

Items	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Degree of Community
Polite	0.90			0.75
Respectful	0.86			0.70
Responsible	0.86			0.70
Honest	0.85			0.59
Reasonable	0.69			0.63
Kind	0.66			0.61
Humility	0.55			0.55
Inclusive		0.71		0.50
Empathetic		0.67		0.43
Transpositional Thinking		0.58		0.50
Helpful		0.60		0.65
Comity		0.75		0.67
Altruistic		0.79		0.48
Extroverted			0.89	0.60
Confident			0.79	0.66
Positive			0.65	0.63
Optimistic and cheerful			0.62	0.61
Open-minded			0.61	0.61
Eigenvalues	8.27	1.38	1.22
contribution rate %	45.94	7.64	6.78
Cumulative contribution rate %	45.94	53.58	60.36

Model	χ²	df	χ²/df	RMR	GFI	IFI	TLI	CFI	RMSEA
Single Factor Model	593.04	135	4.39	0.06	0.80	0.82	0.79	0.81	0.11
Two-factor Model 1	394.04	134	2.94	0.04	0.87	0.89	0.88	0.89	0.08
Two Factor Model 2	541.37	134	4.04	0.05	0.81	0.83	0.81	0.83	0.10
Three-factor model	379.08	132	2.87	0.04	0.90	0.93	0.91	0.93	0.06

Model	χ²	df	χ²/df	RMR	GFI	IFI	TLI	CFI	RMSEA
Single Factor Model	593.04	135	4.39	0.06	0.80	0.82	0.79	0.81	0.11
Two-factor Model 1	394.04	134	2.94	0.04	0.87	0.89	0.88	0.89	0.08
Two Factor Model 2	541.37	134	4.04	0.05	0.81	0.83	0.81	0.83	0.10
Three-factor model	379.08	132	2.87	0.04	0.90	0.93	0.91	0.93	0.06

Variable	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1. Social mindfulness	-
2. Kindness and respect	0.90^**	-
3. Inclusive and understanding	0.89^**	0.77^**	-
4. Positive and open	0.82^**	0.57^**	0.56^**	-
5. Honesty-humility	0.22^**	0.24^**	0.21^**	0.12^*	-
6. Agreeableness	0.41^**	0.30^**	0.36^**	0.41^**	0.37^**	-
7. Trust	0.60^**	0.52^**	0.53^**	0.52^**	0.24^**	0.36^**	-
8. Empathy	0.30^**	0.33^**	0.33^**	0.13^*	0.23^**	0.24^**	0.27^**	-
9. Perspective taking	0.53^**	0.46^**	0.53^**	0.38^**	0.23^**	0.39^**	0.38^**	0.17^**	-