TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - The development of adaptive risk taking and the role of executive functions in a large sample of school-age boys and girls JO - Trends in neuroscience and education A1 - Bell, Morris D. A1 - Imal, Ahmet Esat A1 - Pittman, Brian A1 - Jin, Grace A1 - Wexler, Bruce E. SP - e100120 EP - e100120 VL - 17 IS - N2 - BACKGROUND: The Balloon Analogue Risk Task for Children (BART-C) demands self-regulation of emotion that requires risk-tolerance and adaptive risk-taking to make good decisions under stress (hot cognition).

METHODS: BART-C measures of adaptive risk-taking in 5,409 children K-8th grade were analyzed for improvements by grade, for relationships to executive functioning (EF) and for associations with school characteristics and academic achievement.

FINDINGS: BART-C improved across grades. Boys showed significantly greater Recklessness, particularly in middle school. EF was a partial mediator between grade and Variability and Recklessness. Better BART-C Total score and less Recklessness were related to lower free-or-reduced-school-lunch percentage and better math and reading proficiency of children's schools.

CONCLUSIONS: BART-C is a potential "hot-cognition" measure of self-regulation and adaptive risk-taking for children.

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LA - en SN - 2452-0837 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tine.2019.100120 ID - ref1 ER -