Citation

Galindo-Aldana G, Ledesma-Amaya L, García-Gomar L, Negrete-Cortes A, Galarza-Del-Ángel J, Padilla-López A. Psychology and Neuroscience 2020; 13(1): 61-75.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020)

DOI

10.1037/pne0000182

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The present work is part of the ongoing project of the NeuroExe: Emotion and Cognition validation and standardization in Northwest Mexico rural areas. The objectives of this study were (1) to analyze the validity of the adapted version of the Risk Behavior Questionnaire (RBq); (2) to construct normative data from the RBq and the Emotionally Interfered Working Memory Task (EIWMT) that can be used in clinical practice; and (3) to use these results to examine the relationship between age and EIWMT ability based on the risk behaviors in a group of healthy adolescents from rural areas. A total of 275 adolescents (M = 14.1 years old), geographically distributed among northwest of Mexico, were included in the sample and assessed using RBq and EIWMT. The results from exploratory factor analysis showed 6 different dimensions compared with other previously reported results from the same instrument: (a) sexual risk behavior and tobacco consumption, (b) weapons use and drug use, (c) marijuana consumption, (d) suicide ideations and drug use, (e) self-injury and sexual risk behavior, and (f) violence and drug use.

RESULTS from the EIWMT show age group differences, performance depending on the type of emotional stimuli, and a particular covariance of these differences with sexual risk behavior and tobacco consumption dimensions from the RBq. These results propose data supported on an exploratory factor analysis, and correlations between the performance of emotionally interfered working memory and risk behaviors associated with health in youth, and provide normative data from a neuropsychological emotion-cognition interaction task and risk behaviors for rural populations. © 2019 American Psychological Association.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescent; adult; human; social cognition; mental health; child; female; male; decision making; principal component analysis; factor analysis; interview; rural population; questionnaire; clinical practice; normal human; data base; school child; sexual behavior; self concept; coping behavior; high risk behavior; social behavior; emotionality; Article; working memory; social competence; young adult; executive function; tobacco consumption; behavior assessment; mental disease assessment; exploratory factor analysis; Montreal cognitive assessment; Emotionally Interfered Working Memory Task; Normsemotion- cognitionworking memoryrisk behavior; Risk Behavior Questionnaire