Parent-Child Engagement in Decision Making and the Development of Adolescent Affective Decision Capacity and Binge Drinking |
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Authors: | Xiao Lin Bechara Antoine Palmer Paula H Trinidad Dennis R Wei Yonglan Jia Yong Johnson C Anderson |
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Institution: | a Department of Psychology, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, 3641 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089 2520, United States b Psychiatry Department and Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada c Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, CA, United States d School of Community and Global Health, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, United States e Chengdu Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China |
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Abstract: | The goal of this study was to investigate how parents’ engagement of their child in everyday decision-making influenced their adolescent’s development on two neuropsychological functions, namely, affective decision-making and working memory, and its effect on adolescent binge-drinking behavior.We conducted a longitudinal study of 192 Chinese adolescents. In 10th grade, the adolescents were tested for their affective decision-making ability using the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and working memory capacity using the Self-ordered Pointing Test (SOPT). Questionnaires were used to assess perceived parent-child engagement in decision-making, academic performance and drinking behavior. At one-year follow-up, the same neuropsychological tasks and questionnaires were repeated.Results indicate that working memory and academic performance were uninfluenced by parent-child engagement in decision-making. However, compared to adolescents whose parents made solitary decisions for them, adolescents engaged in everyday decision-making showed significant improvement on affective decision capacity and significantly less binge-drinking one year later.These findings suggest that parental engagement of children in everyday decision-making might foster the development of neurocognitive functioning relative to affective decision-making and reduce adolescent substance use behaviors. |
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Keywords: | Neuropsychological function Prefrontal cortex Working memory Adolescence Iowa Gambling Task |
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