美德是青少年心理健康的保護因素

Virtues as Protective Factors for Adolescent Mental Health

——《青少年研究雜誌》2025年，第35卷，第1期——

< Journal of Research on Adolescence> Volume 35, Issue 1, 2025

【摘要】本文探討了青少年心理健康狀況的下降和傳統道德框架的弱化，認為美德教育能夠保護心理健康，因為道德/存在幸福感與心理健康之間存在內在聯繫。將品格教育融入學校課程，持續不斷地提供道德指導，或許是確保逐步清晰地闡明值得過的生活以及如何過上好日子的最佳途徑。本文批判了目前流行的臨床和積極心理學促進幸福感的方法，這些方法往往忽視了青少年成長中存在和道德的維度。結論強調，需要將道德教育融入心理健康干預措施，以全面解決青少年發展中存在和道德的維度。本文倡導一種積極主動的品格發展模式，以促進道德和存在感的成長。本文認識到美德和元美德發展在個人和道德發展中面臨的挑戰，可與增強青少年的道德和心理韌性。

【關鍵詞】品格、心理健康、美德

[Abstract] This paper explores the decline in adolescent mental health and the weakening of traditional moral frameworks, positing education in the virtues as protective of mental health due to the intrinsic link between moral/existential wellbeing and psychological health. By integrating character education into school curricula, a continuous “dosage” of moral guidance may be an optimal way to ensure a gradual and ever-clearer articulation of a life worth living and how to live well. The paper critiques popular clinical and positive psychological approaches to promoting wellbeing, which often miss the existential and moral dimensions of adolescent growth. The conclusion emphasizes the need for integrating moral education into mental health interventions to address the comprehensive existential and moral dimensions of adolescent development. This paper advocates for a proactive character developmental model that nurtures moral and existential growth, recognizing challenges with virtue and meta-virtue development as integral to personal and moral evolution, and enhancing the moral and psychological fortitude of adolescents.

[Key words] character, mental health, virtues

     論文原文：Shane McLoughlin, Kristján Kristjánsson (2025). Virtues as protective factors for adolescent mental health. Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume35, Issue1, March 2025.

https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.13004 

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