Fuligni Andrew J
Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, Box 62, Los Angeles, CA 90024.
Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2020 Aug 1;29(4):405-411. doi: 10.1177/0963721420917738. Epub 2020 Jun 3.
Adolescents have a fundamental need to contribute to other people, social groups, and the larger society. Giving support and resources to others assists canonical developmental tasks such as autonomy and identity and is beneficial for psychological and physical health. As with the resources received by youth, inequalities according to well-known social gradients likely exist in the opportunity for adolescents to make meaningful contributions to their social world. Greater attention to inequalities in the opportunities for adolescents to give as well as receive could reveal underappreciated but significant ways in which the development of youth from marginalized groups may be comprised.
青少年有着为他人、社会群体和更广大社会做出贡献的基本需求。向他人提供支持和资源有助于完成诸如自主性和身份认同等典型的发展任务，并且对身心健康有益。与青少年所获得的资源一样，根据众所周知的社会梯度，青少年在为其社会世界做出有意义贡献的机会方面可能也存在不平等。更多地关注青少年给予和接受机会方面的不平等，可能会揭示出被低估但却很重要的方面，即边缘化群体青少年的发展可能会受到这些方面的影响。
