Promenta Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
College of Educational Science and Technology, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China.
J Youth Adolesc. 2024 Mar;53(3):632-655. doi: 10.1007/s10964-023-01933-0. Epub 2023 Dec 26.
Prior research has separately investigated the associations of autonomy-supportive parenting and narcissism with adolescents' prosocial behavior, but their joint relationships with prosocial behavior have been rarely examined. The present research aimed to expand the existing literature by scrutinizing the main and interactive associations of autonomy-supportive parenting and narcissism with adolescents' prosocial behavior. In so doing, a series of four studies (collectively N = 2023), combining cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental designs, were conducted. The adolescents' mean age varied from 12.42 to 15.70 years, with a balanced representation of the sexes in those studies. Converging results across four studies showed that high narcissism magnified the positive association between autonomy-supportive parenting and adolescents' prosocial behavior. The interaction pattern presented also suggested adolescents with high narcissism scores were more affected than others-both for better and for worse-by autonomy-supportive parenting, although this interaction might be specific to particular facets of prosocial behavior. These results were robust after adjusting for a few key covariates and survived a set of additional analyses. The present findings provide a novel avenue to explain individual differences linking prosocial behavior with those two factors and further advance precise, individualized strategies to promote adolescents' prosocial behavior.
先前的研究分别考察了支持自主性的养育方式和自恋与青少年亲社会行为之间的关联，但它们与亲社会行为的共同关系很少被研究。本研究旨在通过仔细研究支持自主性的养育方式和自恋与青少年亲社会行为的主要和交互关联，扩展现有文献。为此，进行了一系列四项研究（共 N=2023），结合了横断面、纵向和实验设计。青少年的平均年龄从 12.42 岁到 15.70 岁不等，这些研究中性别比例均衡。四项研究的综合结果表明，高自恋放大了支持自主性的养育方式与青少年亲社会行为之间的正相关。提出的相互作用模式还表明，高自恋得分的青少年比其他人更受自主性支持的养育方式的影响——无论是好是坏，尽管这种相互作用可能特定于亲社会行为的某些方面。在调整了一些关键协变量后，这些结果仍然成立，并通过了一系列额外的分析。这些发现为解释将亲社会行为与这两个因素联系起来的个体差异提供了一个新途径，并进一步推进了促进青少年亲社会行为的精确、个性化策略。
