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Consumer Choices of Women in Residential Drug Treatment: An Analysis of Risk and Impulsivity 1
Author(s) -
KERWIN MARYLOUISE E.,
FARRIS MAREN D.,
HANTULA DONALD A.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00830.x
Subject(s) - impulsivity , delay discounting , psychology , task (project management) , cash , discounting , social psychology , advertising , scale (ratio) , developmental psychology , economics , business , physics , management , finance , quantum mechanics , macroeconomics
The relationship between risk taking, impulsivity, temporal discounting, and shopping choices in an onsite token‐economy store was investigated with 10 women in a long‐term residential drug‐treatment center. Participants completed the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART), Eysenck Impulsivity Scale, and a delay discounting task, which were then correlated with the mean amount spent on slow‐ and fast‐moving consumer items for self, child, and household (cash‐and‐carry store items and catalog items). Of particular importance, purchases of slow‐ and fast‐moving items for the child seemed to mirror one another, suggesting that these women are valuing their children's well‐being (in terms of consumer goods) more highly than their own.