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Affective Decision-Making and Externalizing Behaviors: The Role of Autonomic Activity

Auteurs: Jennifer L. Bubier, Deborah A. G. Drabick

Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology | Uitgave 6/2008

Abstract

We tested a conceptual model involving the inter-relations among affective decision-making (indexed by a gambling task), autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptoms in a largely impoverished, inner city sample of first through third grade children (N = 63, 54% male). The present study hypothesized that impaired affective decision-making and decreased sympathetic and parasympathetic activation would be associated with higher levels of ADHD and ODD symptoms, and that low sympathetic and parasympathetic activation during an emotion-inducing task would mediate the relation between affective decision-making and child externalizing symptoms. In support of our model, disadvantageous decision-making on a gambling task was associated with ADHD hyperactivity/impulsivity symptoms among boys, and attenuated sympathetic activation during an emotion-inducing task mediated this relation. Support for the model was not found among girls.

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Titel: Affective Decision-Making and Externalizing Behaviors: The Role of Autonomic Activity
Auteurs: Jennifer L. Bubier
Deborah A. G. Drabick
Publicatiedatum: 01-08-2008
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology / Uitgave 6/2008
Print ISSN: 2730-7166
Elektronisch ISSN: 2730-7174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-008-9225-9

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