Are effort-based decision-making tasks worth the effort?-A study on the associations between effort-based decision-making tasks and self-report measures.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Amotivation is a common symptom in various mental disorders, including psychotic or depressive disorders. Effort-based decision-making (EBDM)-tasks quantifying amotivation at a behavioral level have been on the rise. Task performance has been shown to differentiate patient groups from healthy controls. However, findings on indicators of construct validity, such as the correlations between different tasks and between tasks and self-reported/observer-rated amotivation in clinical and healthy samples have been inconclusive.

Methods

In a representative community sample (N = 90), we tested the construct validity of the Deck Choice Task, the Expenditure for Rewards Task and the Balloon Task. We calculated correlations between the EBDM-tasks and between the EBDM-tasks an

SUBMITTER: Renz KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9976602 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature