Preference on cash-choice task predicts externalizing outcomes in 17-year-olds.

ABSTRACT: Delay-discounting, the tendency to prefer a smaller-sooner reward to a larger-later reward, has been associated with a range of externalizing behaviors. Laboratory delay-discounting tasks have emerged as a useful measure to index impulsivity and a proclivity towards externalizing pyschopathology. While many studies demonstrate the existence of a latent externalizing factor that is heritable, there have been few genetic studies of delay-discounting. Further, the increased vulnerability for risky behavior in adolescence makes adolescent samples an attractive target for future research, and expeditious, ecologically-valid delay-discounting measures are helpful in this regard. The primary goal of this study was to help validate the utility of a "cash-choice" measure for use in a sample of olde

SUBMITTER: Sparks JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4032562 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature