Associations Between Reward and Future-Related Orientations and General and Specific Mental Health Issues in Adolescence.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence is characterised by a peak in sensation seeking accompanied by gradually developing self-control skills. Adolescents typically show steeper delay discounting performance than other age groups; a feature that is transdiagnostically related to a variety of mental health disorders. However, delay discounting performance is not a singular mental process but involves both risk/reward and future orientation elements, usually operationalised as probability/risk and time discounting tasks, respectively. To clarify the specific relations between the risk/reward and future orientation elements of delay discounting and different types of mental health problems, two bi-factor models and a series of structural equation models (SEMs) were fitted to multi-informant (parent and adolescent self

SUBMITTER: Yang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10896876 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature