scholarly journals Risk-taking and Impulsive Behaviors: a Comparative Assessment of Three Tasks

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sihua Xu ◽  
Marc Korczykowski ◽  
Senhua Zhu ◽  
Hengyi Rao
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Iowa Gambling Task ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Gambling Task ◽  
Balloon Analogue Risk Task ◽  
Chinese Young Adults ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
High Test

We examined the reliability of, and relationships among, the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART), the Delay Discounting Task (DDT), and the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), with a group of healthy Chinese young adults. The BART and the DDT showed moderate to high test-retest reliability across 3 test sessions conducted at 2-weekly intervals. However, the IGT showed low reliability for session 1 but high reliability for sessions 2 and 3. Between tasks, there were significant correlations only for the BART and the IGT and only for session 2 and session 3. These findings support the view that impulsivity is a complex construct with no single personality trait underlying the disposition for impulsive behaviors.

Influence of Impulsivity During Decision-making in Regular Cannabis Users

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S205-S205
Author(s):  
V. Laprevote ◽  
A.L. Devin ◽  
B. Blanc ◽  
R. Schwan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Iowa Gambling Task ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Delay Aversion ◽  
Gambling Task ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The Impact

IntroductionRegular cannabis use is associated with cognitive impairments, including impaired decision making measured by the Iowa Gambling Task. The question remains whether the impulsivity measured in regular cannabis users may participate to impaired decision making. Interestingly, the Cambridge Gambling Task (CGT) is a computerized gambling task allows to differentiate risk taking and impulsivity when making a decision.AimsThis study aims at separately exploring the impact of regular cannabis use on risk taking and impulsivity during decision making process.ObjectivesTo do so, we compared the performance of regular cannabis users and healthy controls during the CGT.MethodsForty-three regular cannabis users (> 7 units/week) with a cannabis use disorder (CUD), 8 non-CUD regular cannabis users and 30 healthy controls were recruited. Decision-making was assessed using the CGT. The following outcomes were considered: Delay aversion score, Overall proportion bet, quality of decision making, risk taking and risk adjustment.ResultsThe analysis on delay aversion score showed a group effect (F = 3.839, P = 0.026) but no effect on other CGT variables. This effect was explained by the fact that cannabis CUD users had a higher delay aversion score than healthy controls and non-CUD cannabis users.ConclusionsIn this study, CUD cannabis users had an increased impulsivity but no increase of risk taking and quality of decision-making. Future work should include the CGT with a clinical scale to evaluate impulsivity and a motor inhibition task to understand if the impairment observed relates to cognitive or motor abilities.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Propensity for risk taking and trait impulsivity in the Iowa Gambling Task

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Upton ◽  
Anthony J. Bishara ◽  
Woo-Young Ahn ◽  
Julie C. Stout
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Iowa Gambling Task ◽  
Gambling Task ◽  
Trait Impulsivity

scholarly journals Test-retest reliability of brain responses to risk-taking during the balloon analogue risk task

NeuroImage ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 209 ◽  
pp. 116495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiong Li ◽  
Yu Pan ◽  
Zhuo Fang ◽  
Hui Lei ◽  
Xiaocui Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Balloon Analogue Risk Task ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Brain Responses ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

scholarly journals Frontotemporal dementia and Iowa Gambling Task: a literature review on decision-making process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luna Vasconcelos Felippe ◽  
Eduardo Sales Loureiro ◽  
Ana Luiza Cotta Mourão Guimarães ◽  
Anna Carolina Dockhorn de Menezes Carvalho Costa ◽  
Mariana Lacerda Reis Grenfell
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Frontotemporal Dementia ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Iowa Gambling Task ◽  
Primary Progressive Aphasia ◽  
Risky Behaviors ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Cognitive Domain ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Gambling Task

Background: Frontotemporal dementia (FDT) is related to memory and behavioral changes. There are variants in which the damage is more pronounced in one cognitive domain. Among the behavioral changes is the decision-making process. To evaluate this skill executive function tests are used, such as the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). Objectives: Analyze the correlation between Iowa Gambling Task and decision- making process in patients with FDT. Methods: A review was conducted on PubMed, using the key words “Iowa Gambling Task AND Frontotemporal Dementia”, resulting in 4 papers. From those, 3 were included. Results: In Gleichgerrcht et al. (2012) IGT was used as a parameter to investigate risk taking on the decision-making process in patients with Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) and its subtypes (PPA is frequently associated with FTD) versus subjects with behavioral variant from FTD (bvFTD). PPA subjects had no improvement throughout the task, proving that there is an impairment in decision-making. The bvFTD group progression showed that this group has a tendency to choose risky behaviors, suggesting an inability to foresee negative outcomes. In Girardi, MacPherson & Abrahams (2011) the frontal variant was analyzed in subjects with ALS and had similar results, showing also a failure to learn how to avoid disadvantageous choices. Torralva et al. (2017) analyzed the results on subjects with the frontal variant in which the results were consistent with the previous studies analyzed in this review. Conclusion: In patients with FTD, the IGT proves that a cognitive impairment in the decision-making and risk-taking process is present.

Psychometrics of the Iowa and Berlin Gambling Tasks: Unresolved Issues With Reliability and Validity for Risk Taking

Assessment ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Schmitz ◽  
Olga Kunina-Habenicht ◽  
Andrea Hildebrandt ◽  
Klaus Oberauer ◽  
Oliver Wilhelm
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Fluid Intelligence ◽  
Iowa Gambling Task ◽  
Working Memory Capacity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Gambling Task ◽  
Psychometric Characteristics ◽  
Risky Decision ◽  
Patient Groups

The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) is one of the most prominent paradigms employed for the assessment of risk taking in the laboratory, and it was shown to distinguish between various patient groups and controls. The present study was conducted to test the psychometric characteristics of the original IGT and of a new gambling task variant for assessing individual differences. Two studies were conducted with adults of the general population ( n = 220) and with adolescents ( n = 389). Participants were also tested on multiple measures of working memory capacity, fluid intelligence, personality traits associated with risk-taking behavior, and self-reported risk taking in various domains. Both gambling tasks had only moderate retest reliability within the same session. Moderate relations were obtained with cognitive ability. However, card selections in the gambling tasks were not correlated with personality or risk taking. These findings point to limitations of IGT type gambling tasks for the assessment of individual differences in risky decision making.

Validation of the TOSCA-3 Among Chinese Young Adults

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 1209-1218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Gao ◽  
Mo Qin ◽  
Mingyi Qian ◽  
Xin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Shame Proneness ◽  
Chinese Young Adults ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Guilt Proneness ◽  
Acceptable Internal Consistency

In this study, we translated into Chinese the Test of Self-Conscious Affect Version 3 (TOSCA-3) and examined the reliability and validity using 3 independent samples of Chinese young adults. The Chinese version (TOSCA-3C) showed acceptable internal consistency and test-retest reliability in all its subscales except for the 2 pride scales. Shame-proneness was found to be positively correlated with trait shame, state anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation. Shame-proneness was found to be negatively correlated with self-esteem. Guilt-proneness was not correlated with any of the measurements. Shame-proneness was also a significant predictor of depression symptoms 2 weeks after the first assessment for depressive symptoms, with self-esteem as a full mediator of this relationship.

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