A longitudinal study of the differential social-cognitive foundations of early prosocial behaviors.
A longitudinal study of the differential social-cognitive foundations of early prosocial behaviors.
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对早期亲社会行为的差异社会认知基础的纵向研究。
DOI：
10.1111/infa.12381
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2021
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Brandone,AmandaC
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作者：
Stout,Wyntre;Karahuta,Erin;Laible,Deborah;Brandone,AmandaC
越来越多的工作记录了在生命的第二年出现了工具性帮助和分享；然而，对亲社会行为发展和产生的基础机制知之甚少。目前的研究采取了纵向的方法来探索亲社会行为的起源是否可以追溯到婴儿时期出现的基础社会认知能力。在90名儿童的样本中，研究了婴儿期(8-12个月)测量的意图理解和共同注意与幼儿时期(18-25个月)评估的工具性帮助和分享行为之间的纵向关系。我们预计，支持婴儿理解他人的社会认知能力与他们蹒跚学步时的亲社会行为呈正相关。测量变量路径分析揭示了从幼儿社会认知到后来的亲社会行为的两条不同的发展路径：1)幼儿时期的工具性帮助通过婴儿期的意图理解正向预测；2)幼儿时期的分享通过幼儿启动共同注意正向预测。这些结果支持了关于早期亲社会行为的多维性质的建议，并提供了第一个纵向证据，表明幼儿亲社会行为的起源可以追溯到婴儿时期出现的社会认知能力。
A growing body of work has documented the emergence of instrumental helping and sharing in the second year of life; however, less is known about mechanisms that underlie development and production of prosocial behavior. The current study took a longitudinal approach to explore whether the origins of prosocial behaviors can be traced back to foundational social‐cognitive capacities emerging in infancy. In a sample of 90 children, longitudinal relations were examined between intention understanding and joint attention measured in infancy (8–12 months) and later instrumental helping and sharing behavior assessed in the toddler years (18–25 months). We expected social‐cognitive capacities supporting infants’ understanding of others to be positively related to their prosocial behaviors as toddlers. Measured variable path analyses revealed two distinct developmental pathways from infant social cognition to later prosocial behavior: 1) Instrumental helping in the toddler years was positively predicted by intention understanding in infancy; 2) sharing in the toddler years was positively predicted by infants’ initiating joint attention. These results lend support to proposals on the multidimensional nature of early prosocial behavior and offer the first longitudinal evidence that the origins of toddlers' prosocial behavior can be traced to social‐cognitive capacities emerging in infancy.