In light of the increasing global population of young people, practitioners and policy makers face formidable challenges in promoting positive youth development and the successful transition to adulthood. Youth participatory research is one promising and rapidly growing approach for generating evidence to inform policy and intervention strategies to best serve youth populations. Here, we consider how developmental science contributes to our understanding about the benefits—for youth, as well as for programs and policies—of engaging youth at different developmental stages in research. We link insights from developmental science to evidence from youth-engaged research to determine where the most fruitful developmental matches may occur. We can maximize the benefits for youth and simultaneously improve research projects when developmental needs, capacities, priorities, and constraints of youth in various stages are thoughtfully considered.

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将发展视角应用于青年主导的参与式行动研究：对现有证据的批判性审查和整合

鉴于全球青年人口不断增加，从业者和政策制定者在促进青年积极发展和成功过渡到成年方面面临巨大挑战。青年参与式研究是一种有前景且发展迅速的方法，可用于生成证据，为政策和干预策略提供信息，以最好地为青年群体服务。在这里，我们考虑了发展科学如何有助于我们理解让处于不同发展阶段的青年参与研究的好处——对青年以及项目和政策。我们将来自发展科学的见解与来自青年参与的研究的证据联系起来，以确定最富有成效的发展匹配可能发生的地方。我们可以最大化青年的利益，同时在发展需要时改进研究项目，