@article{ref1,
title="Parent-Child Engagement in Decision Making and the Development of Adolescent Affective Decision Capacity and Binge Drinking",
journal="Personality and individual differences",
year="2011",
author="Xiao, Lin and Bechara, Antoine and Palmer, Paula H. and Trinidad, Dennis R. and Wei, Yonglan and Jia, Yong and Johnson, C. Anderson",
volume="51",
number="3",
pages="285-292",
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 10(th) 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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0191-8869",
doi="10.1016/j.paid.2010.04.023",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.04.023"
}