Decision-making for risky gains and losses among college students with Internet gaming disorder.
Yuan-Wei Yao,Pin-Ru Chen,Song Li,Ling-Jiao Wang,Jin-Tao Zhang,Sarah W. Yip,Gang Chen,Linyuan Deng,Qin-Xue Liu,Xiaoyi Fang +9 more
TL;DR: The main aim of the present study was to separately evaluate decision-making for risky gains and losses among college students with IGD using the Cups task and to emphasize the effect of insensitivity to losses on disadvantageous decisions under risk in the context of IGD.
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Abstract: Individuals with Internet gaming disorder (IGD) tend to exhibit disadvantageous risky decision-making not only in their real life but also in laboratory tasks. Decision-making is a complex multifaceted function and different cognitive processes are involved in decision-making for gains and losses. However, the relationship between impaired decision-making and gain versus loss processing in the context of IGD is poorly understood. The main aim of the present study was to separately evaluate decision-making for risky gains and losses among college students with IGD using the Cups task. Additionally, we further examined the effects of outcome magnitude and probability level on decision-making related to risky gains and losses respectively. Sixty college students with IGD and 42 matched healthy controls (HCs) participated. Results indicated that IGD subjects exhibited generally greater risk taking tendencies than HCs. In comparison to HCs, IGD subjects made more disadvantageous risky choices in the loss domain (but not in the gain domain). Follow-up analyses indicated that the impairment was associated to insensitivity to changes in outcome magnitude and probability level for risky losses among IGD subjects. In addition, higher Internet addiction severity scores were associated with percentage of disadvantageous risky options in the loss domain. These findings emphasize the effect of insensitivity to losses on disadvantageous decisions under risk in the context of IGD, which has implications for future intervention studies.
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