Potential Mechanism Linking Peer Relationships and Adolescent Prosocial Behavior: Mediation of Cognitive Empathy and Moderations of OXTR and DRD2.

IF 3.7 1区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL Journal of Youth and Adolescence Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-04 DOI:10.1007/s10964-024-02023-5
Xi Li, Wenxin Zhang, Linqin Ji, Yanmiao Cao
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Peers are important socializers of adolescent prosocial behavior. Still, the proximal cognitive and emotional process underlying this link and the sources of individual differences in sensitivity to peer influence have yet to be explored. Utilizing the gene-gene-environment (G × G × E) approach and multi-informant measurement, this study investigated how peer relationships operate to influence adolescent prosocial behavior by examining the mediating role of cognitive and emotional empathy, and the moderating role of the OXTR and DRD2 genes. The study utilized longitudinal data from a community sample of Chinese adolescents (N = 1080, Mage = 13.32 years at T1). Results showed that cognitive empathy rather than emotional empathy mediated the link between peer acceptance/rejection and prosocial behavior. Furthermore, the association among peer acceptance, cognitive empathy, and prosocial behavior was moderated by OXTR and DRD2. Specifically, adolescents with the combinations of AA/AA or G/G genotypes of OXTR/DRD2 benefited more from peer acceptance compared to their counterparts carrying other combined genotypes. The findings highlight cognitive empathy as a proximal process linking peer interaction to prosocial behavior and lend support to the interaction between oxytocinergic and dopaminergic systems on environmental sensitivity.

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连接同伴关系与青少年亲社会行为的潜在机制:认知移情的中介作用以及OXTR和DRD2的调节作用
同伴是青少年亲社会行为的重要社会化者。然而,这种联系背后的近端认知和情感过程以及个体对同伴影响的敏感性差异的来源仍有待探索。本研究利用基因-基因-环境(G × G × E)方法和多信息测量,通过研究认知和情感共鸣的中介作用,以及 OXTR 和 DRD2 基因的调节作用,探讨了同伴关系如何影响青少年的亲社会行为。研究采用了中国青少年社区样本的纵向数据(样本数=1080,T1时年龄=13.32岁)。结果显示,认知移情而非情感移情在同伴接受/拒绝与亲社会行为之间起到了中介作用。此外,同伴接纳、认知移情和亲社会行为之间的关联还受到 OXTR 和 DRD2 的调节。具体来说,与携带其他组合基因型的青少年相比,OXTR/DRD2基因型为AA/AA或G/G组合的青少年从同伴接纳中获益更多。这些发现强调了认知移情是连接同伴互动和亲社会行为的近端过程,并为催产素能和多巴胺能系统对环境敏感性的相互作用提供了支持。
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Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Journal of Youth and Adolescence PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-
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期刊介绍: Journal of Youth and Adolescence provides a single, high-level medium of communication for psychologists, psychiatrists, biologists, criminologists, educators, and researchers in many other allied disciplines who address the subject of youth and adolescence. The journal publishes quantitative analyses, theoretical papers, and comprehensive review articles. The journal especially welcomes empirically rigorous papers that take policy implications seriously. Research need not have been designed to address policy needs, but manuscripts must address implications for the manner society formally (e.g., through laws, policies or regulations) or informally (e.g., through parents, peers, and social institutions) responds to the period of youth and adolescence.
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