Research Article

Overweight and Normal-Weight Children’s Decision-Making in a Child Variant of the Iowa Gambling Task

Table 2

Means (and SDs) of blockwise HDT net scores for weight group and gender.

NWOWGirlsBoys

T1Block 10.45 (3.42)0.89 (3.81)0.04 (3.04)1.24 (4.01)
Block 22.17 (4.86)1.77 (5.60)1.47 (4.52)2.43 (5.80)
Block 32.96 (6.19)1.72 (5.71)1.11 (4.67)3.47 (6.78)

T2Block 11.36 (4.49)0.68 (3.60)0.6 (3.48)1.41 (4.53)
Block 23.40 (6.55)2.38 (4.62)2.02 (4.49)3.69 (6.50)
Block 34.89 (6.78)3.45 (4.71)3.02 (4.16)5.22 (6.93)

T3Block 11.28 (4.64)0.72 (3.53)0.73 (3.80)1.24 (4.40)
Block 24.62 (6.22)2.30 (5.06)2.51 (5.00)4.33 (6.30)
Block 35.96 (7.88)4.17 (6.46)3.51 (5.81)6.49 (8.11)

Note. Blockwise net scores averaged across weight group or gender, respectively. Net scores can range from −20 to 20. HDT: Hungry Donkey Task; NW: normal-weight group; OW: overweight group; T1, T2, and T3: data waves. Significantly above zero ().