As an intensely social species, humans demonstrate the propensity to contribute to other individuals and groups by providing support, resources, or helping to achieve a shared goal. Accumulating evidence suggests that contribution benefits the givers as well as the receivers. The need to contribute during adolescence, however, has been underappreciated compared with more individually focused psychological or social developmental needs. The need is particularly significant during the teenage years, when children's social world expands and they become increasingly capable of making contributions of consequence. Moreover, contribution can both promote and be a key element of traditionally conceived fundamental needs of the adolescent period such as autonomy, identity, and intimacy. The neural and biological foundations of the adolescent need to contribute, as well as the ways in which social environments meet that need, are discussed. A scientific and practical investment in contribution would synergize with other recent efforts to reframe thinking about the adolescent period, providing potential returns to the field as well as to youths and their communities.

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在青春期需要做出贡献。

作为一种高度社会化的物种，人类通过提供支持，资源或帮助实现共同的目标，展现出为其他个人和团体做出贡献的意愿。越来越多的证据表明，贡献既有益于施与受者，也有益于施与者。然而，与更加注重个人的心理或社会发展需求相比，在青春期做出贡献的需求并未得到充分认识。在青少年时期，当儿童的社会世界不断扩大，他们变得越来越有能力做出重要贡献时，这一需求尤其重要。而且，贡献既可以促进青春期传统观念的基本需求，又可以成为其核心要素，例如自治，身份认同和亲密关系。讨论了青少年需要作出贡献的神经和生物学基础，以及社交环境满足这种需求的方式。对捐款做出科学和实际的投资将与其他最近的努力重新组合，以重新构筑对青春期的思考，从而为该领域以及青年及其社区提供潜在的回报。