From an ecological perspective, daily activities are both causes and consequences of youth development. As causes, daily activities represent distinct sets of socialization experiences that afford opportunities to acquire new competencies and behavioral patterns. As consequences, daily activities reflect youth's force and resource characteristics, including developmental status, temperament and motivation, and pre‐existing levels of adjustment. An ecological perspective also highlights the role of the larger sociocultural context in shaping and conditioning the links between daily activities and youth development. In this article, we draw on research with children and adolescents to consider how an ecological perspective can provide a flexible framework for studying time use as a developmental phenomenon. We also discuss methodological issues and suggest research that should be conducted in this broad area.

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时间的使用是青年发展的原因和后果。

从生态学的角度来看，日常活动既是青年发展的原因也是后果。作为原因，日常活动代表着不同的社会化经历集，这些经历提供了获得新能力和行为方式的机会。结果，日常活动反映了青年人的力量和资源特征，包括发展状况，性情和动机以及预先存在的调整水平。生态学观点也突出了更大范围的社会文化背景在塑造和调节日常活动与青年发展之间的联系方面的作用。在本文中，我们将对儿童和青少年进行研究，以考虑生态学观点如何为研究时间利用作为一种发展现象提供灵活的框架。