Comparing decision making in average and overweight children and adolescents.
| Autor: | Verbeken S; Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium., Braet C; Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium., Bosmans G; Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium., Goossens L; Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | International journal of obesity (2005) [Int J Obes (Lond)] 2014 Apr; Vol. 38 (4), pp. 547-51. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Dec 16. |
| DOI: | 10.1038/ijo.2013.235 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: The current study investigates the aspects of self-regulation skills in overweight and normal-weight children, which may be related to their overeating problems. It is hypothesised that overweight children may show poor decision-making behaviour, and this may be because of two processes: hypersensitivity to reward or future insensitivity. Subjects: Average weight children (n=66) and overweight children (n=64) between 11 and 16 years were tested with the developmentally appropriate analogue of the Iowa gambling task. Results: The results reveal that overweight children show decision-making failure ensued from future insensitivity. Conclusion: These findings provide support for the reward deficiency hypothesis or the anhedonic route to obesity in children. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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