Take China HowNet as an example. Since 20 10, there have been more than 260 social psychology studies in China, and there has been an obvious surge in 20 14, from 48 in 20 13 to 89 in 20 14. The main representatives are scholars such as Le Guoan, Zhang Shifu, Yu Guoliang and YeHaoSheng. There is no special social psychology journal in China. According to the articles on social psychology published in China Journal of Health Psychology in recent five years, the research contents of social psychology in China mainly include social support, emotions, gender roles, subjective well-being, conformity behavior, study or work burnout, internet addiction and stress. More than 70% of the subjects are college students. Domestic social psychology research mostly adopts correlation method and experiment method, among which correlation method is used frequently.
Although it has experienced more than 30 years of development, compared with the maturity and rapid expansion of foreign social psychology, domestic social psychology research has some innovations in theory and measurement tools, but it is far from enough in quantity and quality, with limited research objects and backward research methods. The research content is mostly copied from foreign research, and the reliability and validity of the research results are questionable (for example, the research results are not repeatable). In addition, the development of social psychology in China faces many other problems, such as vague evaluation criteria, lack of effective research tools, and imperfect teaching and scientific research systems. It can be said that on the whole, the development of social psychology in China is still in the "groping stage". 2 problems in contemporary social psychology research
2. 1 research object
No matter at home or abroad, researchers tend to adopt convenient sampling methods in the choice of objects, among which college students are the most popular. For the convenience of sampling, researchers usually take students in a certain class as the research object through familiar teachers or classmates. This situation is not uncommon, and it is the most common among undergraduate psychology students. This practice will not only reduce the external effectiveness of the research, but also face ethical problems, such as the subjects may be forced to participate in the experiment voluntarily, the confidentiality and anonymity are threatened, and the subjects hide the truth or obey the researcher's purpose when facing some special problems (Gao Hua, 2009). In the long run, this practice will have a negative impact on the breadth and application value of social psychology research, and is not conducive to the overall development of China's social psychology discipline system.
2.2 Research methods
Foreign social psychology research overemphasizes positivism and experimental research is rampant. In order to quantify the study of social behavior, mainstream social psychology isolates social behavior in the laboratory and observes the relationship between environmental variables and behavior. However, social psychological phenomena, such as humor, aggression and obedience, are difficult to quantify and operate. The definitions of these social behaviors change with different cultural environments, and it is impossible to measure them accurately (YeHaoSheng, 2004). Secondly, the research object of social psychology is people, not things studied by natural science. Man is the product of social negotiation and construction in a specific social and historical period, and is shaped and influenced by cultural and historical factors. Therefore, the conclusion of social psychology experiment is only applicable to a specific cultural and historical background, which is relative. Thirdly, it is very difficult to explain social psychological phenomena with a single factor, and some factors often become the moderating or mediating variables of other factors or behaviors (Liu Changjiang, 2007). Facing the methodological dilemma, foreign social psychology circles began to reflect from the end of the 20th century and tried to explore new research methods. However, China can't keep up with this pace, and mostly makes theoretical exploration and criticism based on the existing research results and data abroad.
2.3 Research content
Compared with foreign social psychology research, China's contemporary social psychology research lacks a solid theoretical foundation and localization framework. Xu Bo believes that in the long history of China, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism have always refused to coexist, and Confucianism has long been the mainstream school of national ideology in China, so Confucian psychology with strong ethical color has become the main ideological and theoretical basis of traditional psychology in China (Xu Bo, 2005). On the other hand, Peng Yanqin believes that Buddhism with thousands of years of history is dedicated to solving people's mental problems (Peng Yanqin, 20 1 1). Some scholars believe that Taoist culture plays an important role in relieving people's psychological pressure (Zhou Hui and Chen Ping, 2005). In the research of local social psychology, psychologists try to find out everything related to psychology in every thought, but this practice is actually very blind and is likely to fall into the situation of repeated work. From ancient times to the present, there are many academic schools of China Thought, and each school has its own complex theoretical viewpoints. However, these views are not completely independent. Take Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism as an example. Since Buddhism was introduced into China, the three religions have merged, infiltrated and supplemented each other for the same needs of survival and development in the new social environment, and started a profound, extensive and organic integration in the ideological level, gradually forming a "three religions in one" with Confucianism as the main body and Buddhism and Taoism as the auxiliary wing. Therefore, before the study of social psychology, if we summarize, integrate and refine China's thoughts and theories, and promote the construction of China's theoretical framework of social psychology, the study will get twice the result with half the effort, and the system and efficiency of the study will be greatly improved.
2.4 Research tools and evaluation system
Up to now, there are still a few psychologists who directly transplant the research scale of western psychology into the research of social psychology in China, or only modify or make their own scales locally. However, China's social psychology is different from western psychology, which is more humanistic, and many viewpoints are highly valued and idealized. This eagerness to prove the research hypothesis with questionnaires and scales shows that China's social psychology research has not got rid of the shackles of western quantitative thinking in terms of principles, strategies, tools and evaluation standards. Therefore, it is an urgent need for the development of social psychology in China to promote the localization of western scales, develop measuring tools with China characteristics and establish an effective evaluation system.