ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2009, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (2): 251-260.

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Applied Developmental Science: A New Scientific Subject Focusing on Human and Society Development

ZHANG Wen-Xin;CHEN Guang-Hui;LIN Chong-De   

  1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014, China
  • Received:2008-11-05 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2009-03-15 Published:2009-03-15
  • Contact: ZHANG Wen-Xin

Abstract: The latter part of the twentieth century was marked by public anxiety about a myriad of social problems including economic development, environmental quality, health care, poverty, violence, school failure that were affecting the lives of vulnerable children, adolescents, adults, families, and communities. The potential role of scientific knowledge about human development in addressing these issues resulted in growing interest in what has been termed applied developmental science. In order to build interdisciplinary bridges and accomplish the collaboration of university and community, applied developmental science includes several defining features: developmental systems theory, diversity, longitudinal methodology, the normative developmental process, reciprocity of knowledge generation and knowledge application, and developmental interventions and enhancement programs. Under the new outreach research paradigm of applied developmental science, knowledge advances as a function of collaborations and partnerships between universities and communities such that the scientists and the children, families, and communities that they seek to understand and help are defining problems, methods, and solutions together. Applied developmental science is attracting the increasing interest of both policymakers and the private and public founders of applied research. Moreover, it is building a set of moral norms for the interdisciplinary research in the field

Key words: the developmental contextualism, knowledge production and application, public policy, children and adolescents

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