This article presents the rationale and a new critical framework for precarity, which reflects a psychosocial concept that links structural inequities with experiences of alienation, anomie, and uncertainty. Emerging from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, political science, and psychology, the concept of precarity provides a conceptual scaffolding for understanding the complex causes of precarious life circumstances while also seeking to identify how people react, adapt, and resist the forces that evoke such tenuous psychosocial experiences. We present a critical conceptual framework as a nonlinear heuristic that serves to identify and organize relevant elements of precarity in a presumably infinite number of contexts and applications. The framework identifies socio-political-economic contexts, material conditions, and psychological experiences as key elements of precarity. Another essential aspect of this framework is the delineation of interrelated and nonlinear responses to precarity, which include resistance, adaptation, and resignation. We then summarize selected implications of precarity for psychological interventions, vocational and organizational psychology, and explorations and advocacy about race, gender, and other systems of inequality. Future research directions, including optimal methodologies to study precarity, conclude the article. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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不稳定心理学：一个关键框架。


本文提出了不稳定的基本原理和新的批判框架，它反映了一种将结构性不平等与异化、失范和不确定性经历联系起来的社会心理概念。不稳定的概念源于人类学、文化研究、社会学、政治学和心理学等多个学科，为理解不稳定的生活环境的复杂原因提供了一个概念框架，同时也试图确定人们如何反应、适应和抵制不稳定的生活环境。唤起如此脆弱的社会心理体验的力量。我们提出了一个作为非线性启发式的关键概念框架，用于在可能无限数量的上下文和应用中识别和组织不稳定的相关要素。该框架将社会政治经济背景、物质条件和心理体验确定为不稳定的关键要素。该框架的另一个重要方面是描述对不稳定的相互关联和非线性反应，其中包括抵抗、适应和辞职。然后，我们总结了不稳定对心理干预、职业和组织心理学以及对种族、性别和其他不平等制度的探索和倡导的选定影响。本文总结了未来的研究方向，包括研究不稳定的最佳方法。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。