An Exploratory Study of Swadharma Intermediate Teachers in Relationship with Self and Society

By Madhu Pandey

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Introduction

Rise of Indigenous psychology was the response to the customary and conventional

description of Psychology. Superannuated psychology made an attempt to seek out the reflection of

individual's cultural, societal and political characteristics across the world. People's feedback

to conventional psychology was very incompetent as they believed that it was not that

proficient to solve their societal complexities confronted at their personal level. It

was one of the maJor concerns for the emergence of indigenous psychology. (Allwood &

Berry, 2006)

Western psychology mainly laidemphasis on the 'self' and on 'individual'.In order to

have better understanding about the background of human beings, differences in their

traits depending on their respective cultures gave rise to the indigenous psychology.

Many researchers have attempted to describe the concept of 'indigenous psychology'. There

have been numbers of definitions on indigenous psychology.

Indigenouspsychology is defined as "the scientific study of human behavior or mind that is native,

that is not transported from other regions, and that is designed for its people". (Kim, Indigneous,

Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology: A theoretical, conceptual and epistemological analysis,

2000)

Another researchers of Chinese Psychology movement, reviewed the variety of

definitions of indigenous psychology and concluded that "no matter how these

psychologists define indigenous psychology, the definitions all express the same basic

goal of developing scientific knowledge system that effectively reflects, describes,

explains, or understands the psychological and behavioral activities in their native

contexts in terms of culturally relevant frame of reference and culturally derived

categories and theories". (Kim, Yang, & Hwang K.K, 2006)

Indigenous psychology can be explained in three distinctive aspects, first aspect is, all the

cognitive processes like emotions, thinking and perceptions should be structured

depending upon the respective traditions of different groups or societies. Second facet is

individual's own perception towards their emotional states and mental health related,

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8929281397
• ISBN13: 9788929281397
• Release Date: September 2022
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