| 其他摘要 | Individualism-collectivism is one of the most actively researched concepts that emerged from cultural social psychology, and the changes in the social development of both are among the concerns of the field of cross一cultural studies. Uniqueness of names can be used as an indicator of individualistic tendencies in a population. Although some scholars have collected data from a wide range of samples in recent years to scientifically analyze the overall trend of Chinese name novelty, they have not focused on the intergenerational changes of a fixed sample of people. The study in this paper is divided into a pre-study and two main studies. One of the pre一studies is an interview, which aims to investigate whether there is any difference between the parents' preference in naming their children and their previous generation, so as to qualitatively discuss whether there is any difference between elementary school students' names and their parents' names in terms of meaning, generation characters, etc.; study one selects students' and parents' names as samples from two schools in a northern metropolis and a county, respectively, and chooses "frequency of commonly used words", "proportion of commonly used names", "name length", "rename rate", and "To explore the differences in uniqueness of names between two cities with different economic development and urbanization, and between elementary school students and their parents. Study 2 innovatively constructed a multidimensional composite indicator of name's uniqueness from the six unidimensional indicators of uniqueness of names, and by adjusting the weight coefficients of the multidimensional composite indicators, a multidimensional composite indicator of uniqueness of names that is more consistent with people's subjective perceptions was derived and validated.
The pre-interviews revealed that the parents of elementary school students often give their children's names a lot of thought, and the students' names often have specific meanings. Secondly, by examining the single indicators to verify the uniqueness of names, all six single-dimensional indicators can better indicate that the names of children's generation and parents' generation in both places reflect some intergenerational variation, with children's generation having higher uniqueness than parents' generation; while there is some geographical variation between the two places, with metropolitan names having higher uniqueness than parents' generation. Finally, the multidimensional composite index was used to verify again that there are significant intergenerational and geographical differences in uniqueness of names between children's and parents' names in both places, which proves the validity of the multidimensional composite index.
In conclusion, the findings of this paper indicate that although in the context of collectivist culture, the trend of rapid economic development brought about by the accelerated modernization process has led to a more active individualistic thinking in society. Under the flourishing trend of individualistic thinking, parents will prefer distinctive meanings and pursue individuality and uniqueness when naming their children, so the uniqueness of names shows a rising trend with generational and geographical changes. This result will help the domestic and international community further understand the cultural character and values of contemporary Chinese society. |
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