Youth's risk for adjustment problems amid political violence is well documented, but outcomes vary widely, with many children functioning well. Accordingly, researchers are seeking to identify the mechanisms and conditions that contribute to children's adjustment, with an interest in understanding effects on children in terms of changes in the social contexts in which they live and the psychological processes engaged by these social ecologies. In this article, we look at the importance of studying many levels of the social ecology and of differentiating the effects of exposure to contexts of political versus nonpolitical violence, and we address theories about explanatory processes. We review research pertinent to these themes, including a six‐wave longitudinal study on political violence and children in Northern Ireland.

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关于政治暴力和儿童发展的社会生态学、过程导向的视角。


青少年在政治暴力中面临适应问题的风险已有充分记录，但结果差异很大，许多儿童表现良好。因此，研究人员正在寻求确定有助于儿童适应的机制和条件，并有兴趣了解儿童所生活的社会环境的变化以及这些社会生态所涉及的心理过程对儿童的影响。在本文中，我们着眼于研究社会生态的多个层面以及区分政治暴力与非政治暴力背景下的影响的重要性，并讨论有关解释过程的理论。我们回顾了与这些主题相关的研究，包括关于北爱尔兰政治暴力和儿童的六波纵向研究。