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Commentary: Advancing Our Understanding of Asian American Child Development: History, Context, and Culture as Essential Considerations
Author(s) -
McLoyd Vonnie C.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/cdev.12573
Subject(s) - developmental science , relevance (law) , psychology , context (archaeology) , child development , developmental psychology , special section , cultural influence , childhood development , developmental stage theories , sociology , social science , political science , history , engineering physics , law , engineering , archaeology
The Special Section will help scholars make informed choices about how to conceptualize developmental processes and assess contextually and culturally relevant variables in future research with Asian American children and youth. It undertakes tasks and addresses challenges that have broad relevance to the study of developmental processes and stands as a reminder of the vital role of interdisciplinary perspectives in the advancement of developmental science.