Risk Taking and Self-Regulation in Children: Cross-sectional and repeated assessments using a computer-based gambling game

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作者：
Jin, Grace [1 ]
Imal, Ahmet Esat [2 ]
Wexler, Bruce [2 ]
Bell, Morris [2 ]
机构：
[1] Yale Univ, Global Affairs, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[2] Yale Univ, Psychiat, New Haven, CT USA
来源：
11TH ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO ASSISTIVE ENVIRONMENTS (PETRA 2018) | 2018年
关键词：
Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART); risk-tolerance; executive function; TASK BART; PROPENSITY; USERS;
D O I：
10.1145/3197768.3203169
中图分类号：
TP301 [理论、方法];
学科分类号：
081202 ;
摘要：
Risk-taking, when unregulated by good executive function, may predispose youth to potentially dangerous behaviors such as substance abuse, unsafe sex practices, and criminal activity. The computer-based Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) has been widely used to study risk-taking propensity and predict real-world risky behaviors. We administered the youth version BART-Y to 6,929 children between grades K-8 and hypothesize that executive function, a cognitive skillset for self-regulation controlled by the frontal lobe, improves risk tolerance. Our preliminary results show that BART Total Points increased across grades and also significantly improved (p < 0.001) over repeated trials, supporting our proposition that risk tolerance is strengthened in parallel with cognitive development.
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