Shenzhen University, China.
South China Normal University, China.
Autism. 2024 Mar;28(3):600-615. doi: 10.1177/13623613231177776. Epub 2023 May 29.
There is growing evidence that the defining characteristics of autism spectrum disorder are distributed across the general population; therefore, understanding the correlates of prosocial behavior in individuals with high levels of autistic traits could shed light on autism spectrum disorder and prosocial behavior. In this study, the mechanism underlying the influence of individuals’ autistic traits on their prosocial behavior was explored by conducting a questionnaire survey of 414 Chinese college students. The results showed that autistic traits can influence individuals’ prosocial behavior not only through the separate effects of received social support and perceived social support but also through the chain mediating effects of received social support and perceived social support; however, the direct effect of autistic traits on individuals’ prosocial behavior is not significant. This study is conducive to understanding the internal mechanism underlying the relationship between autistic traits and prosocial behavior. Future work is required to further investigate the clinical autism spectrum disorder samples and cross-cultural applicability of the model found in this study.
越来越多的证据表明，自闭症谱系障碍的定义特征分布在普通人群中；因此，了解具有高水平自闭症特征的个体的亲社会行为的相关性，可以为自闭症谱系障碍和亲社会行为提供一些启示。在这项研究中，通过对 414 名中国大学生进行问卷调查，探讨了个体自闭症特征对其亲社会行为的影响机制。结果表明，自闭症特征不仅可以通过接受的社会支持和感知的社会支持的单独影响，还可以通过接受的社会支持和感知的社会支持的链式中介作用来影响个体的亲社会行为；然而，自闭症特征对个体亲社会行为的直接影响并不显著。本研究有助于理解自闭症特征与亲社会行为之间关系的内在机制。未来的工作需要进一步研究临床自闭症谱系障碍样本和本研究中发现的模型的跨文化适用性。
