Editorial – « Directions 2022 »

Abstract

It is with mixed feelings that I am introducing NDCAD's last issue, as coordinated by the current editorial team, and with Wiley as main publisher. This issue is presented just almost 3 years after our team took the editorial lead of NDCAD, with great ambitions as outlined in our inaugural editorial (Barbot, 2020), and a set of transformations for the journal that we have implemented since then. During the 2022 year, however, NDCAD has taken an unexpected "new direction". The editorial team was informed that the journal will soon be published and hosted by Hindawi (the open access branch of Wiley), making it a fully Open Access title. This unforeseen change has a number of ramifications, which many members of the editorial board, including me, feel is incompatible with the mission set forth for the journal. Notably, the new editorial model requires that authors or their funder pay an Article Publication Charge (APC) upon acceptance of their manuscript. Together with several of the board members, we believe that this model is not suitable for an outlet like NDCAD. For example, NDCAD's landmark "thematic" format (with guest editors inviting papers as part of their issue) will now require that all contributors pay APCs to be part of the issue, which they may not be able to, thereby potentially jeopardizing the coherence of such thematic issue. Further, since its inception NDCAD thrives to encourage publications from research communities underrepresented in the publication landscape, and for whom APCs may be challenging to handle, possibly turning them to other publication outlets.It is therefore with great disappointment that most of the team has learned about this transition, making us realize that, perhaps one key topic that we failed to address in our "manifesto for new directions in developmental science" (Barbot et al., 2020), is the ever changing landscape of research dissemination and publications in our "open science" era. Dematerialization of publications, oversupply of outlets, new dissemination practices (e.g., preprint articles are tweeted before they are peer-reviewed), are drastically reshaping the peer-review process, the publishing industry and its relationship with academia, and perhaps, scholarship values themselves.With that said, I am now turning back to the present "Directions" issue. Here we present a representative collection of topics, methodological approaches, ideas, and academic backgrounds that NDCAD thrived to represent since its inception. Bornstein and colleagues (2022) present an elegant longitudinal study of parenting styles during adolescence, and their relationship to moral development, as moderated by adolescents' gender. Next, Hong and colleagues (2022) present an empirical study among a large sample of Vietnamese primary students and their parents, which examined the mediating role of parental burnout in the relationship between students' behavior problems and academic outcomes, with parental' self-compassion conceptualized as a moderator of this relationship. Their findings sho...