Armstrong-Carter Emma, Telzer Eva H
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Child Dev Perspect. 2025 Jun;19(2):63-71. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12525. Epub 2024 Aug 7.
Many young people are inclined toward risk taking and also toward helping other people. is a term that can describe different ways that youth provide significant instrumental and emotional support to family members, friends, and strangers, even when it involves a personal risk. In this article, we review research about different types of prosocial risk taking and highlight examples, emphasizing a developmental perspective by examining change across childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. Research to date suggests that young people are more likely to engage in prosocial risk taking when they are more tolerant of uncertainty, have greater sensation-seeking, perspective-taking, and empathy, and when they are motivated by reputational concerns. Individual differences in prosocial risk-taking behavior depend on youth's access to opportunities to explore, practice, and experience positive social feedback. Providing opportunities for youth to direct their risk-taking tendencies toward prosocial outlets may help minimize risks to their psychosocial health and promote individual and community well-being.
许多年轻人倾向于冒险，也倾向于帮助他人。亲社会冒险是一个术语，可以描述年轻人以不同方式为家庭成员、朋友和陌生人提供重要的工具性和情感支持的情况，即使这涉及个人风险。在本文中，我们回顾了关于不同类型亲社会冒险的研究，并突出了实例，通过考察童年、青少年和青年期的变化来强调发展视角。迄今为止的研究表明，当年轻人对不确定性的容忍度更高、有更强的寻求刺激、换位思考和同理心，以及受声誉担忧驱动时，他们更有可能参与亲社会冒险。亲社会冒险行为的个体差异取决于年轻人获得探索、实践和体验积极社会反馈机会的情况。为年轻人提供机会，引导他们将冒险倾向指向亲社会途径，可能有助于将对其心理社会健康的风险降至最低，并促进个人和社区的福祉。
