Journal article
Assessment of Decision-making Competence in Preadolescence
Journal of behavioral decision making, Vol.25(4), pp.414-426
10/2012
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.744
Abstract
Recent research using late adolescent (18–19 years) and adult samples suggests that within-subject performance on a variety of standard, controlled laboratory tasks reflects a higher-order positive manifold of decision-making competence. The present paper extends this important work by testing whether preadolescent children (10- to 11-year-olds, n = 101) exhibit a similar structural pattern characterizing their decision-making performance. Performance on “child-friendly” versions of framing problems, decision matrices, consistency in risk perceptions, and calibration of confidence conformed to a one-factor solution, comparable with that previously found with older populations. Further, individual differences in effortful control, a temperament dimension related to self-regulative executive function, was significantly associated with decision-making competence. Importantly, these measures were predictive of both positive (e.g., completing set goals) and negative behaviors (e.g., missing homework assignments). Results are discussed in terms of the existence of early stable patterns of decision making and rationality and the emergence of systematic individual difference factors in decision making. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Assessment of Decision-making Competence in Preadolescence
- Creators
- Joshua A. Weller - Decision ResearchIrwin P. Levin - University of Iowa, MarketingJason P. Rose - Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, OH, Toledo, USAElaine Bossard - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, IA, Iowa City, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of behavioral decision making, Vol.25(4), pp.414-426
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1002/bdm.744
- ISSN
- 0894-3257
- eISSN
- 1099-0771
- Number of pages
- 13
- Comment
- Test development: Preadolescent Decision-Making Competence Test
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2012
- Academic Unit
- Marketing; Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984831128902771
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