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Zhongyong Thinking and Resilience

Deeply influenced by the Chinese traditional philosophical traditions, including Confucianism, Chinese culture has had a distinctive morality and value system from the earliest times to the present day. China is a cultural and historical country in East Asia, and the effect of traditional Chinese culture and religion was not immutable and stationary. Zhongyong was known as a kind of high standard morality in ancient times. With the development of psychology, researchers have found that Zhongyong thinking is a system that involves values, behaviors, and perceptions, and people decide how to choose, execute, and correct their actions depending on this system (Yang et al., 2016). The concept of Zhongyong thinking is widely used in China. When Wu and Lin (2005) studied about Zhongyong thinking, they defined Zhongyong thinking as a process that takes situations into account from multiple aspects and accountable decisions are made for both personal feelings and the feelings of others considering different views. Therefore, the three features (multiple thinking, holism, and harmoniousness) are included. It is well established that Zhongyong thinking is related to individuals’ mental health under Chinese culture background, and Yang et al. (2016) demonstrated that Zhongyong thinking was significantly associated with an emotion system in a sample of 8,278 Chinese students.