Abstract:
This study will present preliminary analyses on children's Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) scores, BASC Teacher reports of children's levels of aggression, and scores on parenting practices taken from the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire. The study will attempt to answer whether parental practices (monitoring, positive parenting, and involvement) will act as a moderator for affective decision making deficits in children with aggression, and whether supervision and monitoring, positive parenting, and involvement, each act as a protective factor for deficits in affective decision making. Previous research has not examined the connection between positive parental practices and IGT decision making measurements, and the ability of those positive parental practices to act as a protective factor for aggressive children's deficits in affective decision making. The hypothesized connection between positive parental practices and deficits in implicit learning could act as an early testing factor for childhood aggression as well as influence future interventions. The study hypothesized that the IGT will predict poor affective decision making in children who have aggression. The study also hypothesized that positive parenting practices will act as a moderator for poor implicit learning: (1) high scores on monitoring will act as a protective factor, (2) high scores on positive parenting will act as a protective factor, and (3) high scores on involvement will act as a protective factor.
