Understanding Development in Cultural Contexts: How Do We Deal with the Complexity?

摘要

The field of developmental psychology increasingly recognizes the complexity of interacting influences and processes that underlie human growth and change over time. This complexity has been spelled out by developmental systems theory [Lerner, 2006; Lerner, Ma, & Smith, 2005], which proposes that the basic processes of development involve bidirectional relations between multiple levels of organization. Individuals are seen as actively embedded in a dynamic, multilevel contextual milieu evolving in historical time.