About the Journal

ASEAN Social Development Journal (ASDAL) is an open-access international peer-reviewed bi-annual journal that enriches understanding of the past, current, and future issues relevant to Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as regional organisation, community, and Southeast Asia as a region. The article shall address multidisciplinary research on theoretical and/or empirical questions. The topics addressed within the journal include a wide range of spectrum across social sciences and humanities, environmental study, such as but not limited to international relations, diplomacy, economy and business. We are also interested in publishing research that informs both basic science and application, and that, in its conduct, scope, and implications, contributes to the intersection of developmental science and various forms of justice, developmental processes that underlie the origins of, maintenance of, and change in social development, and we particularly support research

ASDAL is a major journal that explores all aspects of social development in the early parts of the lifespan (generally infancy through adolescence) as seen from a psychological stance. We provide an outlet for innovative and high-quality empirical research, debates and comments on theoretical and empirical issues, and literature reviews.

Journal content includes, but is not restricted to, developmental questions pertaining to social cognition, emotion experience and understanding, peer and family relationships, social skills, and theories of mind. We welcome a variety of methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, archival, etc.).  We also invite researchers to submit papers for review under our Methodology and Emergency Psychology calls for research, and the Quartet series (groupings of four papers that create a coherent story together). ASDAL is essential reading for developmental psychologists, social psychologists, and all those concerned with research or teaching in the field of social development.