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Abstract:

This article outlines an indigenous psychology approach that has been applied to Korean behaviour and thought. It is presented here as an alternative scientific paradigm to traditional "mainstream" psychology. Traditional psychology emulates the natural sciences through an approach that attempts to seek objective, experimental, and linear laws of human behaviour. By contrast, the present approach focuses on bottom-up, modelbuilding research that examines proactive and generative actions of human beings that occur in a meaningful context. Human consciousness, intentions, and goals, both at the individual and collective level, become an integral part of the research paradigm. The goal is not to abandon science, objectivity, experimental method, and the search for universals, but to create a rigorous science that is firmly grounded in human understanding. Two empirical studies conducted in Korea are reviewed to illustrate the utility of this indigenous psychology approach. Cet article esquisse une psychologie indigene appliquee au comportement et a la pensee coreennes. On considere qu'il s'agit d'un modele scientifique alternatif se differenciant de la psychologie dominante traditionnelle; cette psychologie s'inspire des sciences exactes a travers un projet qui cherche a mettre en evidence des lois du comportement humain qui soient objectives, experimentales et lineaires. Par contre, cette nouvelle approche met l'accent sur une elaboration empirique de modeles qui part des actions humaines proactives et generatives qui emergent dans un contexte signifiant. La prise de conscience, les intentions et les objectifs, a un niveau a la fois individuel et collectif, font partie integrante du modele de recherche. Le but n'est pas de se detourner de la science, de l'objectivite, de la methode experimentale et de l'acces a des concepts universels, mais d'elaborer une science rigoureuse qui soit solidement basee sur la comprehension de l'humain. On presente ici deux etudes empiriques realisees en Coree pour illustrer la richesse de cette psychologie indigene.

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The Korean Indigenous Psychology Approach: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Applications