Psychosocial development in racially and ethnically diverse youth: Conceptual and methodological challenges in the 21st century
Psychosocial development in racially and ethnically diverse youth: Conceptual and methodological challenges in the 21st century
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种族和族裔多元化青年的心理社会发展：21 世纪的概念和方法挑战
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Gregory Seaton
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作者：
D. Swanson;M. Spencer;Vinay Harpalani;Davido Dupree;E. Noll;S. Ginzburg;Gregory Seaton
随着美国人口在21世纪变得更加多样化，研究人员在研究不同人口时面临许多概念和方法上的挑战。我们以斯宾塞的生态系统理论现象学变体（PVEST）为指导框架，为种族和民族多样化的青年讨论这些问题。我们提出了一个简短的历史背景，并讨论了反复出现的概念上的缺陷，研究多样化的青年，提出PVEST作为纠正这些缺陷。我们强调种族、文化、社会经济地位和各种发展背景与身份形成和其他显著发展过程的相互作用。研究设计和数据解释方面的挑战也涉及到环境评估和发展过程。我们从社区评估、民族认同发展和依恋研究中汲取例子，说明概念和方法上的挑战，并讨论应对这些挑战的策略。本文还考虑了我们分析的政策含义。
As the US population becomes more diverse in the 21st century, researchers face many conceptual and methodological challenges in working with diverse populations. We discuss these issues for racially and ethnically diverse youth, using Spencer's phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory (PVEST) as a guiding framework. We present a brief historical background and discuss recurring conceptual flaws in research on diverse youth, presenting PVEST as a corrective to these flaws. We highlight the interaction of race, culture, socioeconomic status, and various contexts of development with identity formation and other salient developmental processes. Challenges in research design and interpretation of data are also covered with regard to both assessment of contexts and developmental processes. We draw upon examples from neighborhood assessments, ethnic identity development, and attachment research to illustrate conceptual and methodological challenges, and we discuss strategies to address these challenges. The policy implications of our analysis are also considered.