Research Article
Overweight and Normal-Weight Children’s Decision-Making in a Child Variant of the Iowa Gambling Task
Table 1
Means (and SDs) of control variables for weight groups and for boys and girls.
| | NW () | OW () | | | Girls () | Boys () | | |
| Age (T1) | 8.35 (0.78) | 8.36 (0.79) | | .90 | 8.26 (0.72) | 8.44 (0.82) | | | Age (T2) | 9.09 (0.78) | 9.12 (0.80) | | .84 | 9.02 (0.74) | 9.18 (0.83) | | | Age (T3) | 11.07 (0.80) | 11.11 (0.81) | | .72 | 11.02 (0.77) | 11.16 (0.84) | | | SES (T1) | 2.68 (0.96) | 2.66 (0.97) | | .88 | 2.63 (0.92) | 2.7 (1.00) | | | BMI-SDS (T1) | 0.01 (0.57) | 1.93 (0.39) | | <.001 | 0.99 (1.10) | 0.95 (1.06) | | | BMI-SDS (T2) | 0.08 (0.59) | 1.94 (0.36) | | <.001 | 1.00 (1.09) | 1.02 (1.03) | | | BMI-SDS (T3) | 0.08 (0.62) | 1.95 (0.38) | | <.001 | 1.00 (1.11) | 1.02 (1.04) | | | PS (T1)1 | 52.13 (8.03) | 50.22 (9.37) | | .14 | 52.06 (8.45) | 50.36 (9.00) | | |
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Note. Results of two-tailed -tests. OW: overweight group; NW: normal-weight group; T1, T2, and T3: data waves; SES: socioeconomic status; BMI-SDS: standardized BMI score; PS: processing speed. .
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