Exemplifying the Integrations of the Relational Developmental System

Abstract

The focus on a relational, organism–context unit of analysis means that the fundamental process of human development involves developmental regulations among the integrated or interpenetrating processes of the developmental system. The presence of such potential plasticity provides the basis for rejecting the basic versus applied split prototypic in past historical eras of developmental science. To test ideas about the basic relational process of human development, developmental scientists need to assess whether specific, theoretically predicated relations between the individual and context optimize the likelihood of positive development. The conduct of such scholarship illuminates the character of the basic relational process of human development and, as well, provides information about how to promote positive human development in real–world settings, in the ecology of everyday life. The future of civil society in the world rests on the promotion of positive development and a commitment to positive and socially just community contributions by the young.

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