S Verbeken1, C Braet1, G Bosmans1, L Goossens1. 1. Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The current study investigates the aspects of self-regulation skills in overweight and normal-weight children, which may be related to their overeating problems. It is hypothesised that overweight children may show poor decision-making behaviour, and this may be because of two processes: hypersensitivity to reward or future insensitivity. SUBJECTS: Average weight children (n=66) and overweight children (n=64) between 11 and 16 years were tested with the developmentally appropriate analogue of the Iowa gambling task. RESULTS: The results reveal that overweight children show decision-making failure ensued from future insensitivity. CONCLUSION: These findings provide support for the reward deficiency hypothesis or the anhedonic route to obesity in children.
OBJECTIVE: The current study investigates the aspects of self-regulation skills in overweight and normal-weight children, which may be related to their overeating problems. It is hypothesised that overweight children may show poor decision-making behaviour, and this may be because of two processes: hypersensitivity to reward or future insensitivity. SUBJECTS: Average weight children (n=66) and overweight children (n=64) between 11 and 16 years were tested with the developmentally appropriate analogue of the Iowa gambling task. RESULTS: The results reveal that overweight children show decision-making failure ensued from future insensitivity. CONCLUSION: These findings provide support for the reward deficiency hypothesis or the anhedonic route to obesity in children.
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