Physical,Mental Difficulties,and Self-identity Construction of Floating Young White-collar Workers:Based on the Study of Two Buddhist Groups in Shanghai
The social rupture,risk,and uncertainty brought about by compressed modernity are strongly affecting the physical and mental health and self-identity of young people.This study examines two Buddhist groups in Shanghai and their activities,and finds that floating young white-collar workers,who lack family support and are alone in their self-determined life journeys,are faced with a blurred image of the subject,a crisis of individual significance,and an increasingly"shrunken"body.To resist the ensuing divisions and conflicts in their self-identity,they turn to multi-faith practices for self-adjustment.Buddhist groups and their activities provide a platform for them to reorganize their personalities,meaning systems,and autonomous bodies,repairing the coherence,consistency,and uniqueness of their selves in exercises of reading and body.At the same time,the"pure"relationship in the group provides a safe and trusting environment for the practice of the reflective subjects and the recognition of individual cognition,which facilitates the construction of self-identity for floating young white-collar workers.
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