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- The study investigates how autistic traits affect prosocial behavior, which is the willingness to help others, in daily life.
- Autistic traits were found to reduce prosocial behavior both directly and indirectly through a complex relationship with empathy, specifically trait empathy and empathic concern.
- These findings offer insights into the social behavior challenges faced by individuals with autistic traits and suggest potential interventions to enhance social adaptability for those on the autism spectrum and those exhibiting similar traits.
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Although the core characteristics associated with autistic traits are impaired social interactions, there are few studies examining how autistic traits translate into prosocial behaviour in daily life. The current study explored the effect of autistic traits on prosocial behaviour and the mediating role of multimodal empathy (trait empathy and state empathic concern). The results showed that autistic traits reduced prosocial behaviour directly and indirectly through complex mediation by multimodal empathy. The findings revealed the internal mechanism of autistic traits impeding prosocial behaviour and expanded our understandings of social behaviour in autism spectrum conditions (ASCs) and autistic traits in the general population. Furthermore, the results have implications for social adaptability interventions for individuals with ASCs and high levels of autistic traits.
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