With the growing attention to the mental health of college students, the cultural adaptability defects of mainstream Western psychological resilience theories have become increasingly prominent, which restricts the application efficiency of these theories in local contexts. Supported by Yangming’s Philosophy of Mind, this study aims to construct a localized framework for cultivating psychological resilience, so as to make up for its limitations in value orientation and cultural roots. By adopting the methods of theoretical speculation and conceptual analysis, this paper systematically expounds the interpretative relationship between the core concepts of “psychological resilience” and “attaining one’s innate knowledge” through bidirectional deconstruction and logical deduction of the two concepts. The core findings of the study are as follows: First, innate knowledge, as the ontological value, serves as the internal dynamic foundation for the generation of psychological resilience. Second, psychological resilience is dynamically developed in the practice of “tempering oneself through affairs” to attain innate knowledge, which contains a dialectical unity mechanism of “resistance” and “growth”. Third, the resilience based on innate knowledge ultimately leads to the realm of “the benevolence of the unity of all things”, endowing it with an ethical dimension. Thus, the study constructs a logical model of resilience generation integrating “value ontology- practical cultivation- ultimate realm”. This model not only provides a profound cultural and philosophical basis for meaning construction in Western psychology, but also builds a concrete theoretical bridge for the modern psychological transformation of Yangming’s Philosophy of Mind, offering a preliminary theoretical reference and practical enlightenment for carrying out college students’ psychological resilience education rooted in the context of Chinese culture.
Ziyan Pan (Thu,) studied this question.