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Quiet Ego: A Growth and Balance Perspective

ZHANG Li, PAN Peilin, NIU Ziyu, MA Min   

  1. School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081
  • Published:2024-03-18

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Abstract: Quiet ego is a kind of identity that neither pays too much attention to self nor others, integrating with others without losing self. It is beneficial to individual mental health, especially to improve the individual subjective well-being, self-rated physical health, and the reduction of materialism. By introducing the concept of quiet ego, the perspectives of growth and balance, the measurement, and the influence of quiet ego on mental health, it can be seen that quiet ego is essentially the balance and integration of self in space and time dimensions. So far, there have been increasing studies about quiet ego, but as a relatively new perspective, the conceptualization, the localization in China, the development and promotion of the quiet ego remains to be investigated in the future. Based on allostasis, we assume that quiet ego involves both stability and flexibility in time and space.

Key words: quiet ego, mental health, balance, growth, promotion

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  • B844
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