ArticleJournal of adolescence2019
Intergenerational transmission of delay discounting: The mediating role of household chaos.
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- Identifying significant environmental predictors of change in delay discounting among adolescents in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Household Adversity, Day to Day Experiences, and Birth/Pregnancy Complications are Associated with Delay Discounting: Findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of environmental disadvantage on youth delayed reward discounting.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Perceived reward certainty in the assessment of delay discounting.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2025Article
- Volatility-driven learning in human infants.Science advances · 2025Article
- Discounting Future Reward in an Uncertain World.Decision (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Measuring CHAOS? Evaluating the short-form Confusion, Hubbub And Order Scale.Collabra. Psychology · 2023Article
- Household chaos, family routines, and young child movement behaviors in the U.S. during the COVID-19 outbreak: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2021Article
- A healthful home food environment: Is it possible amidst household chaos and parental stress?Appetite · 2019Article
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introductionAdolescence is a period when impulsive decision making may be especially vulnerable to environmental influences. Impulsive decision making is often assessed using a delay discounting paradigm, which measures the preference for smaller rewards sooner over larger rewards with a delay. Research is needed to clarify the relationship between parents' and adolescents' delay discounting and to identify related environmental processes that might facilitate the intergenerational transmission of delay discounting. The current prospective longitudinal study examined the competing mediating processes of household chaos and harsh parenting in the intergenerational transmission of delay discounting between parents and adolescents.
methodsParticipants included 167 adolescents (mean age = 14.07 years at Time 1; 53% male) and their parents (mean age = 41.98 years at Time 1; 87% female) recruited from the southeast United States. Parents' delay discounting was collected at Time 1, and adolescents' delay discounting was collected both at Time 1 and at Time 3 via a computerized delay discounting task. Parents and adolescents reported household chaos and harsh parenting at Time 2.
resultsA parallel mediation model indicated that parents' delay discounting at Time 1 indirectly predicted adolescents' delay discounting Time 3 residualized change scores (regressing Time 3 delay discounting onto baseline delay discounting) through household chaos but not through harsh parenting at Time 2.
conclusionsThese results underline the importance of household chaos in facilitating the intergenerational transmission of delay discounting between parents and adolescents. Furthermore, our findings point to household chaos as a potential environmental target for interrupting intergenerational impulsivity.
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