「人格」是社會生活型態、文化的反應,所以在「現代化」發展過程中,人格結構也必須隨之「重新安排」。如果人格結構的重組未能達到社會生活型態的要求,則會產生適應不良與心理困擾。數十年來,台灣不斷創造了舉世驚呼的經濟與民主奇蹟,但這樣的發展似乎也對國人心理健康與生理適應產生不良的影響。本文旨在探討華人傳統人格與心理健康的關係,收錄賴樂山(2004)「華人人格與心理健康關係之研究探討」、賴樂山、高尚仁、許志隆、藍雅如、韓青芳、張妙清(2004)「兩岸傳統華人人格與心理健康關係之研究探討」及許馨尹(2004)「上級主管傳統性格與其下屬身心健康之關係研究」等三份研究,採用具華人特色之「中國人個性量表」(CPAI-2),探討面子、人情、阿Q精神、親情、寬容、老實、和諧性、傳統性等華人傳統人格對於心理健康表現的影響,並進一步探討兩岸(台灣與大陸)間的差異。
”Personality” is the response of social lifestyle and culture. Therefore, with the development of ”modernization”, the structure of personality must be rearranged. If its rearrangement couldn't respond to the requirements of the social lifestyle, we would have problems in adaptation and mental troubles. For decades, we have created a miracle on economy and democracy in Taiwan, but this development seems to have produced some evil effects on our mental and physical health. This essay aims at the relation between Chinese indigenous personality and mental health. We summed up three essays about the same theme with our research. And we adopted ”Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory”, a questionnaire with Chinese feature, to discuss how Chinese indigenous personality affects people's mental health, and further, to discuss differences between Taiwan and China.