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Socioeconomic Status Differences in Children' s Affective Decision- Making: The Role of Awareness in the Children's Gambling Task.
In: Developmental Psychology, Jg. 58 (2022-09-01), Heft 9, S. 1716-1729
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Future-oriented decision-making is an important adaptive behavior. In the present study, we examined whether decision-making varies as a function of socioeconomic status (SES) using the Children's Gambling task (CGT). We administered the CGT to 227 children (49% female, 48% low SES) between the ages of 5 and 7 years. After completing the CGT, we assessed children' s knowledge of the reward/ loss contingencies. Data analysis was conducted through multilevel modeling. Fluid intelligence. as measured by the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, was included as a covariate in the analysis. Overall performance differed between SES groups. Children from middle/high-SES backgrounds learned to choose more from the deck with higher future reward. In contrast, children in the low-SES group did not act in a full future-oriented manner. No differences were found in the level of explicit understanding of the task reached by the two SES groups. Whereas middle/high-SES children with higher knowledge of the game performed better on the last blocks of the task in comparison with their same-SES peers with no understanding, low-SES children with higher explicit knowledge did not exhibit an improvement in their decision-making strategy in comparison with their same-SES low-awareness counterparts. Fluid intelligence did not predict CGT performance, suggesting that SES differences were not mediated by reasoning capabilities. The finding that children from low-SES families continued exhibiting an immediate reward-oriented strategy despite being aware of deck contingencies fits with (although speculatively) the evolutionary-developmental framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Socioeconomic Status Differences in Children' s Affective Decision- Making: The Role of Awareness in the Children's Gambling Task.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Delgado, Hernán ; Aldecosea, Carina ; Mendndez, Neranei ; Rodriguez, Richard ; Nin, Verónica ; Lipina, Sebastián ; Carboni, Alejandra |
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Zeitschrift: | Developmental Psychology, Jg. 58 (2022-09-01), Heft 9, S. 1716-1729 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2022 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0012-1649 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1037/dev0001382 |
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