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Decision-Making As A Latent Construct And Its Measurement Invariance In A Large Sample Of Adolescent Cannabis Users, Ileana Pacheco-Colon, Samuel W. Hawes, Jacqueline C. Duperrouzel, Catalina Lopez-Quintero, Raul Gonzalez

Center for Children and Families Faculty Publications

OBJECTIVE:

Relative to the vast literature that employs measures of decision-making (DM), rigorous examination of their psychometric properties is sparse. This study aimed to determine whether three measures of DM assess the same construct, and to measure invariance of this construct across relevant covariates.

METHOD:

Participants were 372 adolescents at risk of escalation in cannabis use. DM was assessed via four indices from the Cups Task, Game of Dice Task (GDT), and Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). We used confirmatory factor analysis to assess unidimensionality of the DM construct, and moderated nonlinear factor analysis (MNLFA) to examine its measurement invariance.

RESULTS: …

Inhibitory Control And Information Processing In Adhd: Comparing The Dual Task And Performance Adjustment Hypotheses, Whitney D. Fosco, Michael J. Kofler, R. Matt Alderson, Stephanie J. Tarle, Joseph S. Raiker, Dustin E. Sarver

Center for Children and Families Faculty Publications

Inhibition is a key neurocognitive domain in ADHD that is commonly assessed with the stop-signal task. The stop-signal involves both "go" and "stop" trials; previous research indicates that response times are reliably slower to "go" trials during tasks with vs. without intermittent "stop" trials. However, it is unclear whether this pattern reflects deliberate slowing to maximize inhibitory success (performance adjustment hypothesis) and/or disrupted bottom-up information processing due to increased cognitive demands (dual-task hypothesis). Given the centrality of "go" responding for estimating children's inhibitory speed, finding that children with ADHD slow differently -or for different reasons- has the potential to inform …

The Structure Of Cognition In 9 And 10 Year-Old Children And Associations With Problem Behaviors: Findings From The Abcd Study’S Baseline Neurocognitive Battery, Wesley K. Thompson, Deanna M. Barch, James M. Bjork, Raul Gonzalez, Bonnie J. Nagel, Sara Jo Nixon, Monica Luciana

Center for Children and Families Faculty Publications

The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study is poised to be the largest single-cohort long-term longitudinal study of neurodevelopment and child health in the United States. Baseline data on N=" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: normal; font-size: 16.2px; word-spacing: normal; overflow-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; border: 0px; position: relative;">N= 4521 children aged 9–10 were released for public access on November 2, 2018. In this paper we performed principal component analyses of the neurocognitive assessments administered to the baseline sample. The neurocognitive battery included …