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Childhood socioeconomic deprivation, but not current mood, is associated with behavioural disinhibition in adults
There is evidence to suggest that impulsivity is predicted by socioeconomic background, with people from more deprived backgrounds tending to be more impulsive, and by current mood, with poorer mood associated with greater impulsivity. However, impulsivity is not a unitary construct, and previous re...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4435446/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26020014 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.964 |
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author | Paál, Tünde Carpenter, Thomas Nettle, Daniel |
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description | There is evidence to suggest that impulsivity is predicted by socioeconomic background, with people from more deprived backgrounds tending to be more impulsive, and by current mood, with poorer mood associated with greater impulsivity. However, impulsivity is not a unitary construct, and previous research in this area has focused on measures of ‘waiting’ impulsivity rather than behavioural disinhibition. We administered a standard measure of behavioural disinhibition, the stop-signal task, to 58 adult participants from a community sample. We had measured socioeconomic background using participant postcode at age 16, and assigned participants to receive either a neutral or a negative mood induction. We found no effects of mood on behavioural disinhibition, but we found a significant effect of socioeconomic background. Participants who had lived in more deprived postcodes at age 16 showed longer stop-signal reaction times, and hence greater behavioural disinhibition. The pattern was independent of participant age and overall reaction time. Though caution is required inferring causality from correlation, it is possible that that experiencing socioeconomic deprivation in childhood and adolescence may lead to greater behavioural disinhibition in adulthood. |
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spelling | pubmed-44354462015-05-27 Childhood socioeconomic deprivation, but not current mood, is associated with behavioural disinhibition in adults Paál, Tünde Carpenter, Thomas Nettle, Daniel PeerJ Neuroscience There is evidence to suggest that impulsivity is predicted by socioeconomic background, with people from more deprived backgrounds tending to be more impulsive, and by current mood, with poorer mood associated with greater impulsivity. However, impulsivity is not a unitary construct, and previous research in this area has focused on measures of ‘waiting’ impulsivity rather than behavioural disinhibition. We administered a standard measure of behavioural disinhibition, the stop-signal task, to 58 adult participants from a community sample. We had measured socioeconomic background using participant postcode at age 16, and assigned participants to receive either a neutral or a negative mood induction. We found no effects of mood on behavioural disinhibition, but we found a significant effect of socioeconomic background. Participants who had lived in more deprived postcodes at age 16 showed longer stop-signal reaction times, and hence greater behavioural disinhibition. The pattern was independent of participant age and overall reaction time. Though caution is required inferring causality from correlation, it is possible that that experiencing socioeconomic deprivation in childhood and adolescence may lead to greater behavioural disinhibition in adulthood. PeerJ Inc. 2015-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4435446/ /pubmed/26020014 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.964 Text en © 2015 Paál et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Paál, Tünde Carpenter, Thomas Nettle, Daniel Childhood socioeconomic deprivation, but not current mood, is associated with behavioural disinhibition in adults |
title | Childhood socioeconomic deprivation, but not current mood, is associated with behavioural disinhibition in adults |
title_full | Childhood socioeconomic deprivation, but not current mood, is associated with behavioural disinhibition in adults |
title_fullStr | Childhood socioeconomic deprivation, but not current mood, is associated with behavioural disinhibition in adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Childhood socioeconomic deprivation, but not current mood, is associated with behavioural disinhibition in adults |
title_short | Childhood socioeconomic deprivation, but not current mood, is associated with behavioural disinhibition in adults |
title_sort | childhood socioeconomic deprivation, but not current mood, is associated with behavioural disinhibition in adults |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4435446/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26020014 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.964 |
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