Drawing from life-span psychology, we conducted two studies to test perceptions of time left in the future as an underlying mechanism for age differences in self-reported social risk taking. Study 1 included 120 younger (25-35 years) and 119 older (60-91 years) community-dwelling adults. Study 2 included 439 participants (18-85 years) mostly recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk. In both studies, older age was associated with rating a lower likelihood of social risk taking (e.g., speaking about an unpopular issue) and perceiving the future as holding fewer future opportunities and being more limited. Perceptions of fewer future opportunities with aging statistically mediated age-related declines in social risk taking. Findings highlight motivational factors as key for understanding age differences in social risk taking. Implications of age differences in social risk taking on factors related to well-being, such as social support and strain, are discussed.

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不要冒险。老年人感知到的未来机会较少，并避免承担社会风险。

根据寿命心理学，我们进行了两项研究，以测试对未来剩余时间的看法作为自我报告的社会风险承担年龄差异的潜在机制。研究 1 包括 120 名年轻（​​25-35 岁）和 119 名年长（60-91 岁）的社区成年人。研究 2 包括 439 名参与者（18-85 岁），大部分是从 Amazon Mechanical Turk 招募的。在这两项研究中，年龄越大，承担社会风险的可能性越低（例如，谈论一个不受欢迎的问题），以及认为未来拥有更少的未来机会和更有限的可能性。对未来机会减少的看法与老龄化统计介导的社会风险承担与年龄相关的下降。研究结果强调动机因素是理解社会冒险行为的年龄差异的关键。