Macropsychology: A Systematic Scoping Review of the Psychology Literature on Public Policy and Law
Abstract
:1. Introduction
Research Aim
“[T]he law is not an inanimate rule book for some inherently fair or meritocratic game of individual chance, skill, or even ‘justice’. It can be a powerful engine for the progressive advancement of some or all people or the means of their repression. It is made by humans and so is never completely neutral. It has moral content and values, not only in its substance but in its linguistic framing, form, process, and priorities”.
2. Methods
2.1. Search Strategy
2.2. Literature Screening
2.3. Data Extraction
3. Results
3.1. Populations
3.1.1. Children and Adolescents
3.1.2. People with Mental Health Problems
3.1.3. LGBTQ+ Persons
3.1.4. Miscellaneous Populations
3.2. Age, Gender, and Ethnicity
3.3. Type of Article and Method
3.4. Geographical Location
3.5. Year of Publication
4. Discussion
Limitations
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Inclusion Criteria: | |
Publication Year: | From 2010 to present. |
Language: | The search was conducted in English. Articles not in English were translated. |
Types of Research: | Psychology publications, including quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, and theoretical papers. |
Types of Documents: | Peer-reviewed journal articles, reports, reviews, and book chapters, published in a psychology journal or a multidisciplinary journal where the first author is working in the field of psychology. |
Research Focus: | – Publications focused on psychology AND macro-level factors, including structures, systems, institutions, policies, and laws, at the national, regional, intergovernmental, and supranational levels, with a focus on social justice. – Behavioural insights/behavioural governance, with a focus on social justice. |
Exclusion Criteria: | |
Publication Year: | Prior to 2010. |
Types of Research: | – Protocols. – Testing measures. |
Types of Documents: | – Book reviews. – Pre-prints. – Abstracts. – Bibliographies. – Editorials. – Letters to editors. – A corrigendum that does not revise the actual content of articles. – Award addresses. – Articles not published in a peer-reviewed psychology journal or a multidisciplinary journal where the first author is working in the field of psychology. |
Research Focus: | – Psychology AND macro-level factors without a focus on social justice. – Behavioural insights/behavioural governance, without a focus on social justice. – Psychiatry publications. |
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Populations | Subpopulations | Number of Articles | Article Number (Article Numbers Correspond with those in Supplementary File S2) |
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Children and/or adolescents | 19, 16.1% | 2, 7, 11, 26, 37, 44, 46, 55, 57, 65, 78, 80, 84, 91, 94, 100, 114, 115, 117 | |
Children | 4 | 26, 78, 80, 94 | |
Children and adolescents | 4 | 2, 7, 46, 57 | |
Adolescents | 1 | 114 | |
Left-behind children from rural primary schools in remote areas of western China | 1 | 11 | |
Children with special healthcare needs | 1 | 37 | |
Youth with obesity | 1 | 115 | |
Children and/or adolescents and their families | 2 | 65, 91 | |
Families experiencing separation | 1 | 117 | |
Families with both parental mental health issues and child protection concerns | 1 | 84 | |
Professional practitioners such as psychologists working with children | 1 | 100 | |
Legal professionals working with lawsuits involving children | 1 | 44 | |
Players in the judicial sector involving children | 1 | 55 | |
Ethnic minorities | 15, 12.71% | 3, 12, 16, 31, 48, 54, 69, 70, 75, 76, 85, 86, 111, 113, 118 | |
Latino populations | 2 | 16, 76 | |
Indigenous and Aboriginal (North Americas and Canada) | 2 | 3, 54 | |
Asian Americans | 1 | 113 | |
Black and minority ethnic (BME) communities | 1 | 86 | |
Eastern Asian and North American populations | 1 | 118 | |
Rwandan ethnic groups | 1 | 48 | |
Heterogeneous cultural groups in multicultural societies | 1 | 75 | |
Immigrants and migrants | 4 | 12, 70, 85, 111 | |
Ethnic minorities more broadly | 2 | 31, 69 | |
People with mental health problems and/or substance abuse problems and/or mental health service users | 15, 12.71% | 1, 6, 8, 10, 19, 22, 23, 27, 36, 47, 51, 77, 79, 88, 90 | |
People with mental health problems and/or substance abuse problems and/or treatment service users | 8 | 8, 19, 22, 23, 27,77, 88, 90 | |
Individuals found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder | 1 | 79 | |
Mental health service users and people subject to (involuntary) detention | 2 | 1, 10 | |
Mental health system stakeholders, service users and advocates more broadly | 4 | 6, 36, 47, 51 | |
People with mental, neurological and substance use disorders in low- and middle-income countries | 1 | 27 | |
LGBTQ+ persons | 13, 11.01% | 4, 9, 13, 15, 17, 20, 32, 34, 62, 87, 99, 103, 104 | |
Individuals in same-sex relationships | 1 | 4 | |
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) individuals | 2 | 32, 104 | |
LGBTQ individuals and communities | 2 | 13, 62 | |
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) community | 1 | 87 | |
LGBTQ+ clients and professional practitioners such as psychologists | 2 | 34, 103 | |
Sexual minority (LGBQ+) college students | 1 | 20 | |
Sexual and gender minority individuals living in Tennessee | 1 | 9 | |
Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals | 2 | 17, 99 | |
Parents of trans and gender-diverse (TGD) youth | 1 | 15 | |
Miscellaneous populations | 27, 22.88% | 5, 14, 18, 21, 24, 28, 33, 40, 41, 43, 45, 58, 61, 63, 64, 66, 68, 69, 71, 73, 89, 96, 97, 106, 107, 108, 116 | |
Asylum seekers | 1 | 106 | |
Refugee populations | 3 | 21, 43, 89 | |
Individuals with physical or intellectual disabilities | 3 | 40, 68, 96 | |
Employees | 2 | 18, 116 | |
Employees experiencing gender discrimination | 1 | 24 | |
People who are unemployed | 1 | 5 | |
Disenfranchised individuals living with mental health disorder and/or physical disabilities | 1 | 64 | |
Citizens affected by HIV/AIDS | 1 | 97 | |
Populations with lived experience of the Movement for Global Mental Health in low- and middle-income countries | 1 | 107 | |
Globally socioeconomically disadvantaged | 1 | 71 | |
Residents in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods | 1 | 41 | |
Marginalised communities | 1 | 61 | |
Socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals | 2 | 63, 73 | |
Adolescents in resource-constrained settings | 1 | 45 | |
School students who are disadvantaged | 1 | 58 | |
Adults living in a rural and urban community | 1 | 28 | |
People experiencing relative food insecurity | 1 | 33 | |
Historically disadvantaged groups | 1 | 108 | |
Students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds | 1 | 69 | |
Ageing populations | 1 | 14 | |
Women who are subject to detention | 1 | 66 | |
Other | Professional practitioners | 15, 12.71% | 25, 30, 38, 39, 52, 56, 60, 67, 72, 83, 92, 95, 98, 101, 105 |
Public policies/laws/rights | 14, 11.86% | 29, 35, 42, 49, 50, 59, 74, 81, 82, 93, 102, 109, 110, 112 |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleMoonveld, Moonika, and Joanne McVeigh. 2025. "Macropsychology: A Systematic Scoping Review of the Psychology Literature on Public Policy and Law" Behavioral Sciences 15, no. 3: 350. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15030350
APA StyleMoonveld, M., & McVeigh, J. (2025). Macropsychology: A Systematic Scoping Review of the Psychology Literature on Public Policy and Law. Behavioral Sciences, 15(3), 350. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15030350