Yang Liu, Lyu Muhua, Chen Jiahui, Feng Xidan, Ren Ping
Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
J Youth Adolesc. 2025 Feb 13. doi: 10.1007/s10964-025-02142-7.
Despite evidence indicating that social mindfulness may be a precondition for both prosocial and aggressive behavior, there remains a limited understanding of how the bidirectional dynamics between them unfold over time. Framed in the developmental cascade model, this study examined the longitudinal reciprocal relations between social mindfulness and these two distinct social behaviors among early adolescents by disentangling within-person and between-person effects. A total of 1087 Chinese early adolescents (48.7% girls; M = 11.35 ± 0.49 years at Time 1) participated in a three-wave longitudinal study with about four-month assessment intervals. The random-intercept cross-lagged panel model indicated that, at the within-person level, social mindfulness and prosocial behavior positively predicted each other over time. Furthermore, fluctuations in social mindfulness were found to negatively predict changes in aggressive behavior at subsequent time points, but the reverse was not true, suggesting a unidirectional influence. A similar pattern was found between social mindfulness and reactive aggressive behavior, but no significant bidirectional effects emerged between social mindfulness and proactive aggressive behavior. These findings highlight the role of social mindfulness in shaping early adolescents' social behavior over time, thus providing insights for more targeted and effective interventions to foster prosocial behavior and prevent aggressive behavior.
尽管有证据表明社会正念可能是亲社会行为和攻击行为的一个先决条件，但对于它们之间的双向动态如何随时间展开，人们的理解仍然有限。在发展级联模型的框架下，本研究通过区分个体内效应和个体间效应，考察了青少年早期社会正念与这两种不同社会行为之间的纵向互惠关系。共有1087名中国青少年早期学生（48.7%为女生；第一次测量时M = 11.35 ± 0.49岁）参与了一项为期三个月的纵向研究，评估间隔约为四个月。随机截距交叉滞后面板模型表明，在个体内水平上，随着时间的推移，社会正念和亲社会行为相互正向预测。此外，研究发现社会正念的波动对随后时间点的攻击行为变化有负向预测作用，但反之则不成立，这表明存在单向影响。在社会正念和反应性攻击行为之间也发现了类似的模式，但在社会正念和主动性攻击行为之间没有出现显著的双向效应。这些发现凸显了社会正念在塑造青少年早期社会行为过程中的作用，从而为更有针对性和有效性的干预措施提供了见解，以促进亲社会行为并预防攻击行为。
