Review symposium: Intra-induividual Research on the Real Transition Process

Abstract

Tania Zittoun's research has great value in the context of the current research background of developmental psychology, and especially from the perspective of a Chinese scholar. Zittoun breaks through the traditional research model of developmental psychology, and finds a new way to analyze the psychological changes in transition with the concept of cultural resource as the core of her research paradigm. Furthermore, she explores the development of person-as-history in an open-ended dynamic process of research. Zittoun's research has provided us with much to learn from, to contemplate about, and to work through in creating a new methodology and analytical patterns for understanding human beings.