一、跨文化研究的意义近一二十年里,跨文化心理学已成为普通心理学,特别是发展心理学的一个重要分支。在西方,由于初次重视了文化与种族的关系,心理学家们在这方面的研究活动空前活跃起来。如果说以前这种研究是要比较不同文化环境或不同国家之间的差异的话,那么现在的研究已不仅着重在发现差异,而且也同样注意发现跨越不同文化的共同点。正如阿德勒(Ad- First, the significance of cross-cultural research In the past decade or two, cross-cultural psychology has become an important branch of general psychology, especially developmental psychology. In the West, because of the initial emphasis on the relationship between culture and race, psychologists are unprecedentedly active in their research activities in this area. If the previous study was to compare different cultural environments or differences among different countries, the current research has focused not only on identifying differences, but on the common ground of discovering different cultures. As Adler-