mentality

考え方、気質

人や集団が普段どのように物事を考え、理解するか。

やさしい英語で： A person’s or group’s usual way of thinking and understanding things.

• She has a winning mentality.
• We need to change the mentality of the whole team.
• That old mentality is difficult to overcome.

使い方： the mentality of someone (The book explores the mentality of young soldiers.)

類義語： mindset, outlook, attitude

よく使う表現： winning mentality, victim mentality, mentality of someone

精神構造

身体や言語、文化によって形づくられる、心の性質や働きのつながり。

やさしい英語で： The connected features and processes of a mind, shaped by the body, language, and culture.

• The theory treats mentality as a system of linked processes.
• Language plays a role in the development of human mentality.
• Researchers compared the structures of mentality across cultures.

類義語： mental organization

よく使う表現： human mentality, structure of mentality, development of mentality