本研究目的在驗證華人多元自尊中的個人取向與社會取向特質自尊在預測心理適應時是否有差異？研究者並假設中庸思維是社會取向特質自尊與正向心理適應的完全中介變項，是個人取向特質自尊與正向心理適應的部份中介變項。

本研究以18-24歲大學生為對象進行調查，共得到258份有效問卷。研究結果顯示：(1)個人取向特質自尊可以預測中庸思維。(2)社會取向特質自尊可以預測中庸思維。(3)社會取向特質自尊比個人取向特質自尊更能有效的預測中庸思維。 (4)中庸思維可以顯著預測社交自信。(5)中庸思維中的整合性對個人取向特質自尊預測社交自信有部分中介效果。但是與假設不同的是中庸思維不是社會取向特質自尊與正向心理適應的中介變項。

This study aimed to examine the effects of individual oriented self-esteem and social oriented self-esteem on Taiwanese college students’ social psychological adjustment. Researcher hypothesized that Zhong-Yong is a complete mediating variable between social oriented trait self-esteem and positive psychological adjustment and serveres as a partial mediating variable between individual oriented self-esteem and positive psychological adjustment.

Researcher collected 258 valid questionnaires from Taiwanese college students. Results indicated that : (1) Individual oriented self-esteem could predict Zhong-Yong. (2) Social oriented self-esteem could predict Zhong-Yong. (3) Social oriented self-esteem are better predictor than individual oriented self-esteem in predicting Zhong-Yong. (4) Zhong-Yong could predicted social confidence. (5) Integration, a factor extracted from Zhong-Yong scale, partly mediated effect of the individual oriented self-esteem on social confidence. However, Zhong-Yong was not a complete mediating variable between social oriented self-esteem and the positive psychological adjustment as hypothesized.

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表次……………………………………………………………………………………ii
第一章 研究動機與目的………………………………………………………….1
第一節 名詞釋義………………………………………………………………2
第二章 文獻探討……………………………………………………………………4
第一節 自尊的界定與類型……………………………………………………4
第二節 自尊與心理適應……………………..………………………..……..10
第三節 中庸思維與相關研究………………………………………………..14
第三章 研究假設……………………………………………………………..……19
第四章 研究方法……………………………………………………………..……20
第一節 研究對象………………………………………………………………20
第二節 研究工具………………………………………………………………20
第五章 研究結果分析……………………………………………………………..26
第一節 研究樣本基本資料……………………………………………………26
第二節 相關分析………………………………………………………………28
第三節 假設檢驗………………………………………………………………31
第六章 研究結果與建議…………………………………………………………..36
第一節 研究結果與討論……………………………………………………………36
第二節 研究限制及未來研究方向…………………………………………………39
第三節 研究貢獻……………………………………………………………………41
參考文獻………………………………………………………………………..……42
附錄一 研究量表………………………………………………………..…………47
附錄二 因素分析表………………………………………………………………..52

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