我国西南少数民族心理研究的基本状况

西南少数民族心理研究是我国民族心理学的重要部分。20世纪80年代以来, 西南少数民族研究主要集中在儿童认知、智力发展、人格、价值观和品格等方面, 并取得了一些具有代表性的成果。目前, 西南少数民族心理研究主要有几个特点：(1)研究取样主要是青少年和学生; (2)研究取向主要是民族心理的发展; (3)民族心理研究大多与教育研究相联系; (4)民族心理研究的研究方法的科学性有待增强; (5)民族心理研究的核心是民族文化, 民族心理研究应该深入民族生活中去考察民族习俗; (6)民族心理研究多将民族和民族文化作为实验中一个变量, 对民族心理本质问题的重视程度不够。

Review on National Psychology of the Minorities in Southwest China

The psychological research of the minority in southwest is an important part of the minority psychological research in our country. Since the 1980s, the research of the minority in southwest has been mainly about the children’s cognitive, intellectual development, personality, values and character and so on. Some excellent results have been achieved. Currently, the psychological study of the minority in southwest has several characteristics. (1) The samples are always the young people and students. (2)The orientation of the study is always the development of national psychology. (3) Most of the studies are related with the education. (4)The scientific of the study of the psychology of the minority needs to be enhanced. (5) The core of the national psychological study is the national culture, and it needs to be related with the national life and national customs. (6) The study regards the nation and national culture as an experimental variable, but it pays little attention to the nature of the minority psychology.