Department of Psychology.
Department of Education, University of California at Los Angeles.
Dev Psychol. 2019 Mar;55(3):449-456. doi: 10.1037/dev0000694.
The unprecedented state of economic inequality faced by many countries around the world is one of the most pressing social issues of the day, with far-reaching consequences for child and adolescent development. Despite the intensity of the public and scientific discourse on this topic, less scientific attention has been paid to young people's understanding and experiences of economic inequality, including their perceptions and beliefs about their own and others' social status and of the economic and sociopolitical contexts in which they are growing up. The collection of articles in this special section of Developmental Psychology seek to advance the theoretical and empirical knowledge base on children and adolescents' perceptions, experiences, and reasoning about economic inequality, with attention to the processes by which inequality affects developmental outcomes. Three invited commentaries provide a synthesis of the articles, offer thoughtful and insightful theoretical and methodological critiques, situate the findings in a more global context, and advance future directions for scholarship on this topic. In this introduction, the authors provide an overview of the special section and offer directions for future research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
世界上许多国家面临着前所未有的经济不平等状况，这是当今最紧迫的社会问题之一，对儿童和青少年的发展有着深远的影响。尽管公众和科学界对此话题的讨论十分热烈，但科学界对年轻人对经济不平等的理解和体验关注较少，包括他们对自己和他人的社会地位以及他们成长所处的经济和社会政治背景的看法和信念。发展心理学特刊中的这组文章旨在推进关于儿童和青少年对经济不平等的看法、经验和推理的理论和实证知识库，关注不平等影响发展结果的过程。三篇特邀评论对文章进行了综合，提出了深思熟虑和富有洞察力的理论和方法学批评，将研究结果置于更广泛的全球背景下，并为该主题的未来研究方向提供了建议。在引言中，作者概述了特刊并为未来的研究提供了方向。（美国心理协会，2019）
