A Critical Review of Psychological Studies on Confucian Culture in Korea

The purpose of this critical review was to summarize and discuss the results of the previous studies, which were performed from the psychological perspectives, on Confucian culture in Korea. In this paper we dealt with the following three parts: (1) Psychological theories of Korean Neo-Confucianism (朝鮮性理學) and Silhak(實學) in Chosun Dynasty. (2) Culture-level and individual-level analysis of Confucian culture in modem Korea. (3) The results of studies on the influences of Confucian thought and culture in the applied psychology fields. The suggestions for the theoretical development, the methodological improvement and the feasible future research topics were discussed.

keywords: Korean Confucian culture, Confucian psychological theories, Korean Neo-Confucianism, psychology of Korean people, critical review

Submission Date: 2001-09-07

Revised Date: 2001-12-06

Accepted Date: 2001-12-07

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Vol.20 No.2

A Critical Review of Psychological Studies on Confucian Culture in Korea

Abstract

Korean Journal of Psychology: General