ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2019
Does delay discounting predict maladaptive health and financial behaviors in smokers?
Article in Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06145919 (Parent-Child Memory Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Parent-Child Memory Study: Improving Future Thinking Among Mothers From a Traditionally Underserved Community to Reduce Harsh Parenting and Improve Child Outcomes - A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Future thinking to decrease real-world drinking in alcohol use disorder: Repairing reinforcer pathology in a randomized proof-of-concept trial.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2022Trial
- Bleak present, bright future: II. Combined effects of episodic future thinking and scarcity on delay discounting in adults at risk for type 2 diabetes.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2021Trial
- Scoping review of episodic future thinking and delay discounting observed in Alzheimer's disease, depression, and PTSD.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- The neural substrates responsible for reward sensitivity association with delay discounting: left dorsal anterior cingulate cortex connectivity with right precuneus.Brain structure & function · 2025Article
- The Impact of Data Control and Delayed Discounting on the Public's Willingness to Share Different Types of Health Care Data: Empirical Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2025Article
- Ecological momentary assessment of delay discounting, reward valuation, and craving in very light cigarette users.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
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- Discounting Future Reward in an Uncertain World.Decision (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Latent profiles of regulatory flexibility in alcohol use disorder: Associations with delay discounting and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- Parents, but not their children, demonstrate greater delay discounting with resource scarcity.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Loss Aversion and Current, Former, and Never-Smoking Status.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Article
- Examining neurobehavioral differences that support success in recovery from alcohol and other substance use disorders.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023Observational
- A Rapid Assessment of Sensitivity to Reward Delays and Classwide Token Economy Savings for School-Aged Children.Journal of behavioral education · 2022Article
- The phenotype of recovery II: The association between delay discounting, self-reported quality of life, and remission status among individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- The Predictive Utility of Valuing the Future for Smoking Cessation: Findings from the ITC 4 Country Surveys.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Evaluating effects of episodic future thinking on valuation of delayed reward in cocaine use disorder: a pilot study.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2021Article
- Psychopathology, disordered eating, and impulsivity in patients seeking bariatric surgery.Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery · 2021Article
- Temporal Discounting of Money and Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Hoarding Level.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveExcessive delay discounting, the rapid devaluation of future rewards, is often demonstrated by individuals suffering from substance use disorders, including chronic cigarette smokers. This constricted temporal window not only produces increased valuation of immediate unhealthy rewards (e.g., cigarettes) but also a decreased valuation of both future healthy rewards (e.g., increased energy) and future consequences (e.g., lung cancer). Moreover, in addition to cigarettes, smokers tend to engage in other behaviors that elicit immediate rewards and negative future consequences such as overconsuming alcohol, unhealthy eating, physical inactivity, and/or irresponsible spending. The present study sought to determine whether smokers' discounting rate would predict the frequency of engagement in other poor health and financial behaviors, independent of cigarette smoking.
methodA total of 303 daily smokers were asked to complete a delay discounting task and then answer how frequently they typically engaged in health and finance related behaviors.
resultsA structural equation model was used to group the questions into highly significantly latent factors of "Drug Use," "Finances," "Fitness," "Food," "Health," "Household Savings," "Personal Development," and "Safe Driving." When regressed on the model, delay discounting significantly predicted engagement all of the factors, except "Safe Driving," independent of smoking status.
conclusionIn sum, these findings highlight delay discounting as a useful metric for predicting whether individuals' engagement in variety of healthy physical and financial behaviors, as a function of their temporal window. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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