期刊
CHILD MALTREATMENT
卷 18, 期 3, 页码 184-194出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1077559512467846
关键词
risk taking; decision making; expected value sensitivity; maltreated children; child welfare system
资金
- NIDA NIH HHS [P30 DA023920, DA023920] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH078105, P50 MH078105] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [P50MH078105] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE [P30DA023920] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Although maltreated children involved with child welfare services are known to exhibit elevated levels of health-risking behaviors, little is known about their decision-making processes leading to such tendencies. Research findings suggest that maltreated children exhibit developmental delays in neurocognitive and emotional regulation systems that could adversely impact their abilities to make decisions under conditions of risk. Whereas prior researchers have examined risky decision making as a global construct, maltreated children's decision making was examined in two contexts in the present study: potential gains and potential losses. Comparing maltreated children (n = 25) and a nonmaltreated community group (n = 112), it was found that the maltreated children showed decision-making impairments for both domains: This impairment was especially prominent in the loss domain. The maltreated children took excessive risks and were insensitive to changes in expected value. Follow-up analyses revealed that these differences were primarily associated with insensitivity to changes in outcome magnitude for the risky option. Finally, response latency analyses indicated that the maltreated children were slower to make choices, reinforcing underlying differences in decision processes between groups. These results have implications for basic and translational science.
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