Why youth are more purposeful than we think

IF 5.1 1区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL Child Development Perspectives Pub Date : 2021-10-23 DOI:10.1111/cdep.12432
Patrick L. Hill, Anthony L. Burrow
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A core attribute of the positive youth development movement has been to nullify negative perceptions of youth’s capacities. Toward this end, measurement and classification systems benefit from efforts to view youth’s capacities as assets contextualized by developmental potentials and opportunities. In this article, we consider this point with respect to whether youth are purposeful. The prevailing sentiment of some researchers holds that few adolescents have a purpose in life, perhaps reifying negative beliefs about their capacity. We assert an alternative view that focuses on sense of purpose, which relies on abundant evidence that adolescents generally perceive themselves to be purposeful, thus offering a more inclusive and positive portrayal of young people. This different perspective also opens the door to new opportunities for studying the development of purpose among marginalized adolescents, as well as how interventions may motivate a sense of purpose among youth.

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为什么年轻人比我们想象的更有目的性
积极的青年发展运动的一个核心属性是消除对青年能力的负面看法。为此目的,衡量和分类系统受益于将青年能力视为与发展潜力和机会相结合的资产的努力。在这篇文章中,我们考虑这一点,关于青年是否有目的。一些研究人员的普遍观点认为,很少有青少年有生活目标,这可能是对他们能力的消极信念的具体化。我们主张另一种观点,即关注目标感,它依赖于大量证据,即青少年通常认为自己是有目的的,从而提供了一个更包容和积极的年轻人的写照。这种不同的视角也为研究边缘化青少年的目标发展以及干预措施如何激发青少年的目标感提供了新的机会。
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Child Development Perspectives
Child Development Perspectives PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-
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期刊介绍: Child Development Perspectives" mission is to provide accessible, synthetic reports that summarize emerging trends or conclusions within various domains of developmental research, and to encourage multidisciplinary and international dialogue on a variety of topics in the developmental sciences. Articles in the journal will include reviews, commentary, and groups of papers on a targeted issue. Manuscripts presenting new empirical data are not appropriate for this journal. Articles will be obtained through two sources: author-initiated submissions and invited articles or commentary. Potential contributors who have ideas about a set of three or four papers written from very different perspectives may contact the editor with their ideas for feedback.
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