This award recognizes a distinguished career and enduring contribution to psychology in the public interest. Vonnie C. McLoyd has made outstanding contributions in the public interest as a scholar, mentor, and leader in professional affairs. Her scholarship advanced understanding of the processes through which poverty harms children and provided evidence of the protective effects of social support on parents and children experiencing poverty and neighborhood violence. Her work helped transform the study of African American children to one focused on normative development, contextual influences, and sources of within-group variation. She increased ethnic diversity in psychology through her extensive mentorship and activities undertaken as a leader in the Society for Research on Adolescence, the Society for Research in Child Development, and the Association for Psychological Science. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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APF 公益心理学终身成就金奖：Vonnie C. McLoyd。

该奖项旨在表彰杰出的职业生涯和对公共利益心理学的持久贡献。Vonnie C. McLoyd 作为专业事务的学者、导师和领导者，为公共利益做出了杰出贡献。她的奖学金加深了对贫困对儿童的伤害过程的理解，并提供了社会支持对遭受贫困和邻里暴力的父母和儿童的保护作用的证据。她的工作帮助将非裔美国儿童的研究转变为专注于规范发展、背景影响和群体内变异来源的研究。作为青少年研究协会、儿童发展研究协会、和心理科学协会。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。