Papers by Yung-Jong Shiah
Frontiers in psychology, Mar 11, 2024
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International and cultural psychology series, 2020
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World Futures, Jul 3, 2023
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Journal of Parapsychology, Mar 22, 2011
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Cross-Currents of Social Theorizing of Contemporary Taiwan
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Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics, 2020
With the increasing number of human disasters in recent years, disaster service workers are faced... more With the increasing number of human disasters in recent years, disaster service workers are faced with an ever-growing challenge of criticism concerning their professional competence. The workers also realize the limitation inherent in their practice, as well as bioethics problems regarding autonomy and heteronomy. Therefore, professionals and researchers of human service devote to the issue of post-disaster rehabilitation of the people so as to identify an effective way and practice to aid the post-disaster individual, family and community. This study explores the effectiveness of rehabilitative function of disaster service workers through the action research of Typhoon Morakot and the 2014 Gas Explosion in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. The case studies serves as a platform for thediscussion of principles of bioethics and the analysis of the process of self-discipline of the workers of human services in hope of ultimately establishing bioethical principles for heteronomy during disasters...
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Cross-Currents of Social Theorizing of Contemporary Taiwan, 2022
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In the present paper, we report two studies examining the relationships among renunciation of des... more In the present paper, we report two studies examining the relationships among renunciation of desires, death anxiety, and mental health. In the first study, we constructed the Desire Questionnaire (DQ), which measures success in renouncing certain desire. The DQ has satisfactory psychometric properties. In the second study, 501 adults from a Chinese society ranging in age from 17 to 84 years (M = 35.58, SD = 14.76) completed the DQ, the Death Anxiety Scale (DAS), and the Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ), which measures mental health and the presence of psychiatric symptoms. As predicted, DQ had significant negative correlations with both DAS (p < 0.05) and CHQ (p < 0.01). DAS had a significant positive correlation with CHQ (p < 0.01). In the linear mediation model, DAS was found to partially mediate the relationship between DQ and CHQ (β = − 0.18, p < 0.001). These results suggest that the negative effect of poor control of desires on mental health can be partially acc...
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Journal of Parapsychology, Mar 22, 2008
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The publication of this book, East Asian Philosophies and Psychology: Towards Psychology of Self-... more The publication of this book, East Asian Philosophies and Psychology: Towards Psychology of Self-cultivation, signifies an important breakthrough for the indigenization movements of psychology which have happened in many non-Western countries since 1980s. Viewing from the perspective of scientific revolution (Kuhn, 1969), when Western paradigms of psychology are transplanted to non-Western countries and encounter anomalies which cannot be explained by the imported theories, the foreign theories are in a state of crisis waiting for scientific revolution
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Frontiers in Psychology
In this article we describe four previous Tai-Chi models based on the I-Ching (Book of Changes) a... more In this article we describe four previous Tai-Chi models based on the I-Ching (Book of Changes) and their limitations. The I-Ching, the most important ancient source of information on traditional Chinese culture and cosmology, provides the metaphysical foundation for this culture, especially Confucian ethics and Taoist morality. To overcome the limitations of the four previous Tai-Chi models, we transform I-Ching cultural system into a psychological theory by applying the cultural system approach. Specifically, we propose the Jun-zi (君子) Self-Cultivation Model (JSM), which argues that an individual (小人, xiao-ren) can become an ideal person, or jun-zi, through the process of self-cultivation, leading to good fortune and the avoidance of disasters (趨吉避凶, qu-ji bi-xiong). The state of jun-zi is that of the well-functioning self, characterized by achieving one’s full potential and an authentic, durable sense of wellbeing. In addition, we compare egoism (xiao-ren) and jun-zi as modes of ...
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International and Cultural Psychology, 2020
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In the present paper, we report two studies examining the relationships among renunciation of des... more In the present paper, we report two studies examining the relationships among renunciation of desires, death anxiety, and mental health. In the first study, we constructed the Desire Questionnaire (DQ), which measures success in renouncing certain desire. The DQ has satisfactory psychometric properties. In the second study, 507 adults from a Chinese society ranging in age from 17 to 84 years (M = 35.58, SD = 14.76) completed the DQ, the Death Anxiety Scale (DAS), and the Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ), which measures mental health and the presence of psychiatric symptoms. As predicted, DQ had significant negative correlations with both DAS (p < .05) and CHQ (p < .01). DAS had a significant positive correlation with CHQ (p < .01). In the linear mediation model, DAS was found to partially mediate the relationship between DQ and CHQ (\(\beta\) = .21, p < .001). These results suggest that the negative effect of poor control of desires on mental health can be partially ac...
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Shared-death-experiences (SDEs) and after-death-communication-experiences (ADCEs) are non-ordinar... more Shared-death-experiences (SDEs) and after-death-communication-experiences (ADCEs) are non-ordinary mental experiences related to the death of a known or unknown person. These experiences were investigated by surveying four samples with different cultural backgrounds: Italian, Mexican, Brazilian and Taiwanese people. One-hundred-twenty-one participants reported 146 experiences of this type.Among the main characteristics of these experiences, visual, visual-auditory and feeling experiences, which comprised 74% of all experiences, were experienced both in the dream state and a normal state of consciousness. Furthermore, most of these experiences were lived before (47.3%) or after (39%) the death of the person in relationship with the participants.More importantly, these experiences influenced the participants’ death interpretation favoring the belief that death affects only the body, but the consciousness of the deceased persons survives in another reality and sometimes can communicate...
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The "finger-reading" effect refers to successful touch identification of apparently fla... more The "finger-reading" effect refers to successful touch identification of apparently flat targets on paper, where the participant is unable to see, or feel, any normal sensory cues to aid touch identification. Studies of this have been running for over 10 years in Taiwan. A quarter of children, after finger-reading training, appeared to be able to determine the identity of targets by means of directly touching a flat target varying in four different colours printed by an ink printer on paper. In the West, one study indicates that the fingers might read printing on paper without sight, while six studies find that fingers alone can discriminate colours on paper. However, a discussion of methodological issues follows, which points out the deficiency of well-controlled conditions in all the finger-reading studies reviewed. This leads to a conclusion that fraud has not been entirely ruled outsuggesting unreliable finger-reading results. In addition, this fingerreading effect has...
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International and Cultural Psychology, 2020
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