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
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OW
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Girls
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Boys
()

Age (T1)8.35 (0.78)8.36 (0.79).908.26 (0.72)8.44 (0.82)
Age (T2)9.09 (0.78)9.12 (0.80).849.02 (0.74)9.18 (0.83)
Age (T3)11.07 (0.80)11.11 (0.81).7211.02 (0.77)11.16 (0.84)
SES (T1)2.68 (0.96)2.66 (0.97).882.63 (0.92)2.7 (1.00)
BMI-SDS (T1)0.01 (0.57)1.93 (0.39)<.0010.99 (1.10)0.95 (1.06)
BMI-SDS (T2)0.08 (0.59)1.94 (0.36)<.0011.00 (1.09)1.02 (1.03)
BMI-SDS (T3)0.08 (0.62)1.95 (0.38)<.0011.00 (1.11)1.02 (1.04)
PS (T1)152.13 (8.03)50.22 (9.37).1452.06 (8.45)50.36 (9.00)

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. .