Applied Developmental Science

期刊简介：The focus of this multidisciplinary journal is the synthesis of research and application to promote positive development across the life span and across the globe. The journal publishes research that generates knowledge about human development that informs public dialogue, social policy, and preventive and development optimizing interventions. The applied developmental science orientation is defined by three conjoint emphases. The applied aspect reflects its direct implication for what individuals, families, practitioners, and policymakers do. The developmental aspect emphasizes a focus on systematic and successive changes within individual and social systems that occur across the life span. The science aspect underscores the need to use a range of research methods to collect reliable and objective information in a systematic manner to test the validity of theory and application. The convergence of these three aspects leads to a fostering of a reciprocal relationship between theory and application as a cornerstone of applied developmental science, one wherein empirically based, developmental theory not only guides intervention strategies and social policy, but is influenced by the outcome of these activities. Furthermore, the convergence calls for a multidisciplinary perspective aimed at integrating information from biological, medical, social, and behavioral science disciplines. Given this multidisciplinary orientation, the journal publishes research employing any of a diverse array of rigorous qualitative as well as quantitative methodologies, when they have important implications for the application of developmental science across the human life span. Manuscripts pertinent to the diversity of development throughout the life span, cross-national and cross-cultural studies, studies pertinent to social justice, and research about the methods and measures involved in applying developmental science are particularly welcome. The journal does not publish pilot studies. Authors should include analytic techniques that indicate the effect size of findings and information about nature of the sample studied. Peer Review Policy: All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Readership: Developmental, clinical, school, counseling, aging, educational, and community psychologists; life course, family, and demographic sociologists; health professionals; family and consumer scientists; human evolution and ecological biologists; practitioners in child and youth governmental and nongovernmental organizations.

【译文】这本多学科期刊的重点是研究和应用的综合，以促进整个生命周期和全球范围内的积极发展。该杂志发表的研究成果产生了有关人类发展的知识，为公共对话、社会政策以及预防和发展优化干预措施提供信息。应用发展科学方向由三个共同的重点来定义。应用方面反映了它对个人、家庭、从业者和政策制定者所做的事情的直接影响。发展方面强调关注个人和社会系统在整个生命周期中发生的系统性和连续性的变化。科学方面强调需要运用一系列研究方法，系统地收集可靠、客观的信息，以检验理论和应用的有效性。这三个方面的融合导致了理论与应用之间的相互关系的形成，作为应用发展科学的基石，其中以经验为基础的发展理论不仅指导干预策略和社会政策，而且受到这些活动结果的影响。此外，这种融合需要多学科视角，旨在整合来自生物、医学、社会和行为科学学科的信息。鉴于这种多学科方向，该杂志发表的研究采用了各种严格的定性和定量方法，当它们对发展科学在人类生命周期中的应用具有重要影响时。特别欢迎有关生命周期发展多样性、跨国和跨文化研究、社会正义研究以及应用发展科学方法和措施的研究的手稿。该杂志不发表试点研究。作者应包括表明研究结果影响大小的分析技术以及有关所研究样本性质的信息。同行评审政策：所有提交的稿件均需经过编辑的初步评审，如果认为适合进一步考虑，则由独立、匿名的专家审稿人进行同行评审。所有同行评审均采用双重匿名方式，并通过 ScholarOne Manuscripts 在线提交。出版办公室：Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106。 读者群：发展、临床、学校、咨询、老龄化、教育和社区心理学家；生命历程、家庭和人口社会学家；卫生专业人员；家庭和消费者科学家；人类进化和生态生物学家；儿童和青少年政府和非政府组织的从业人员。