Children need to learn to persist through challenges, yet adults sometimes step in to solve problems for them. Here, we looked at how adult taking over related to children’s persistence. In an observational study (N = 34, ages 4–8), we found that parents who took over more often during a challenging puzzle task rated their children as dispositionally less persistent. To establish whether taking over can cause reduced persistence, we ran two preregistered experiments (N = 150, ages 4–5). Children assigned to a taking over condition persisted less on a subsequent task compared to those in a teaching or a baseline condition. Reframing the context did not ameliorate the negative impact of taking over. The results suggest that taking over impairs children’s persistence.

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当成年人接管时，孩子们的坚持会减少

孩子们需要学会在挑战中坚持不懈，而成年人有时会介入为他们解决问题。在这里，我们研究了成人接管与儿童坚持的关系。在一项观察性研究（N  = 34，4-8 岁）中，我们发现在具有挑战性的拼图任务中接手的父母更频繁地认为他们的孩子在性格上不那么坚持。为了确定接管是否会导致持久性降低，我们进行了两个预先注册的实验（N  = 150，年龄 4-5）。与处于教学或基线条件下的儿童​​相比，被分配到接管条件下的儿童​​在后续任务中的坚持较少。重新构建上下文并没有减轻接管的负面影响。结果表明，接管会损害儿童的毅力。