Seider Scott, Jayawickreme Eranda, Lerner Richard M
Boston University, 2 Silber Way, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, 415 Greene Hall, P.O. Box 7778 Reynold Station, Winston-Salem, NC, 27109, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2017 Jun;46(6):1149-1152. doi: 10.1007/s10964-017-0650-3. Epub 2017 Mar 11.
Traditional models of character development have conceptualized character as a set of psychological attributes that motivate or enable individuals to function as competent moral agents. In this special section, we present seven articles, including two commentaries, that seek to make innovative conceptual and methodological contributions to traditional understandings in the extant scholarship of character and character development in youth. In the introduction to this special section, we provide overviews of these contributions, and discuss the implications of these articles both to the current scholarship and to applications aimed at promoting character and positive youth development.
传统的品格发展模型将品格概念化为一组心理属性,这些属性促使或使个体能够作为有能力的道德主体发挥作用。在这个特别版块中,我们呈现了七篇文章,包括两篇评论文章,它们力求在现有关于青少年品格与品格发展的学术研究中,对传统理解做出创新性的概念和方法贡献。在这个特别版块的引言中,我们概述了这些贡献,并讨论了这些文章对当前学术研究以及旨在促进品格与青少年积极发展的应用的影响。