ReviewDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2024
Wanting to matter and learning to care: A neurodevelopmental window of opportunity for (Pro) social learning?
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- Debate: Urban versus rural environments - which is better for mental health? The one good thing about a small town….Child and adolescent mental health · 2025Review
- Social media component effects: a commentary on Maheux et al. (2024).Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Social support and self-efficacy during early adolescence: Dual impact of protective and promotive links to mental health and wellbeing.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
Wanting to matter-to feel socially recognized, appreciated, and capable of actions that benefit others-represents a fundamental motivation in human development. The motivational salience of mattering appears to increase in adolescence. Evidence suggests this is related to pubertal increases in the incentive salience for gaining social value and personal agency. This can provide a useful heuristic for understanding motivational proclivities (i.e. wanting to matter) that influence action-outcome learning as young adolescents are exploring and learning how to navigate increasingly complex social and relational environments. Adolescence also brings new capacities, motives, and opportunities for learning to care about and contribute to the benefit of others. Together, these create a window of opportunity: a sensitive period for learning to gain salient feelings of mattering through caring prosocial actions and valued societal contributions. Successfully discovering ways of mattering by doing things that matter to others may contribute to formative socio-emotional learning about self/other. Advances in understanding these social and relational learning processes and their neurodevelopmental underpinnings can inform strategies to improve developmental trajectories of social competence and wellbeing among adolescents growing up in a rapidly changing and increasingly techno-centric world.
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