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- Title
Confucianism and the Lack of the Development of the Self Among Korean American Women.
- Authors
Son, Angella
- Abstract
In this essay, I will examine how the societal attribution of women's subordinate role in society influences their psychological health and results in the undesirable effect of broken relationships. I will argue that (1) Confucianism has been a major influence in creating a subordinate role for women in Korea; (2) the societal expectation of women's subordinate role contributes to the arrest in the development of the self in women; and (3) the lack of the development of the self among women brings further broken relationships by causing in women grandiosity, low self-esteem, and a pervasive sense of shame.
- Subjects
CONFUCIANISM; KOREAN American women; SELF-esteem; SOCIAL justice; CULTURAL identity; MEGALOMANIA
- Publication
Pastoral Psychology, 2006, Vol 54, Issue 4, p325
- ISSN
0031-2789
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11089-005-0003-0