Profiling older adults’ decision-making under risk
The role of cognitive functioning and personality traits
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21689152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Colautti (0000-0002-7803-3721, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, corresponding author), Matteo Robba (0000-0003-1755-1864, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Alessandro Antonietti (0000-0002-7212-8076, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Paola Iannello (0000-0002-2736-2541, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 474-496 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thinking & Reasoning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-6783 • E-ISSN: 1464-0708 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13546783.2025.2455646 |
| OpenAlex | W4406794142 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 69 |
In decision making under risk manifold individual differences are involved. To investigate their effect – specifically the effects of executive functions, memory, impulsivity, and consideration for future consequences − 130 healthy older adults were assessed through cognitive tests, self-report tools, and decisional tasks (the Game of Dice Task and the Balloon Analogue Risk-Taking Task). From a Latent Profile Analysis, three profiles characterised by differences in decisional performances emerged. “Impulsive and present-focused” individuals, notable for high levels of impulsivity and consideration for immediate consequences, and “Cautious” individuals, characterised by having impulsivity scores below average, presented decisional performances characterised by lower incomes and a higher number of risky choices compared to “Impulsive and cognitively functional” individuals, signified by the highest levels of impulsivity and cognitive functioning. Findings outlined how different configurations of individual differences can affect older adults’ decisions and implications can follow for deepening the decisional mechanisms in older adults
Big Five personality traits · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive skill · Developmental psychology · Personality · Psychiatry · Aging and Gerontology Research · Clinical Psychology · Computer Science · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Consequences of Age-Related Cognitive Declines
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Decision‐making Competence, Executive Functioning, and General Cognitive Abilities
Application of confirmatory factor analysis to the study of self-concept
The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks
Functional and dysfunctional impulsivity
On the division of short-term and working memory
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |