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Are effort-based decision-making tasks worth the effort? A study on the associations between effort-based decision-making tasks and self-report measures
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Abstract Objectives: Amotivation is a common symptom in various mental disorders, including psychotic or depressive disorders. Effort-based decision-making (EBDM)-tasks quantifying amotivation at a behavioral level have been on the rise. Task performance has been shown to differentiate patient groups from he... view more
Objectives: Amotivation is a common symptom in various mental disorders, including psychotic or depressive disorders. Effort-based decision-making (EBDM)-tasks quantifying amotivation at a behavioral level have been on the rise. Task performance has been shown to differentiate patient groups from healthy controls. However, findings on indicators of construct validity, such as the correlations between different tasks and between tasks and self-reported/observer-rated amotivation in clinical and healthy samples have been inconclusive. Methods: In a representative community sample (N = 90), we tested the construct validity of the Deck Choice Task, the Expenditure for Rewards Task and the Balloon Task. We calculated correlations between the EBDM-tasks and between the EBDM-tasks and self-reported amotivation, apathy, anticipatory pleasure, and BIS/BAS. Results: Correlations between tasks were low to moderate (0.198 ≤ r ≤ 0.358), with the Balloon Task showing the largest correlations with the other tasks, but no significant correlations between any EBDM-task and the self-report measures. Conclusion: Although different EBDM-tasks are conceptualized to measure the same construct, a large part of what each task measures could not be accounted for by the other tasks. Moreover, the tasks did not appear to substantially capture what was measured in established self-report instruments for amotivation in our sample, which could be interpreted as questioning the construct validity of EBDM-tasks.... view less
Keywords
motivation; depression; decision making; psychosis; behavior
Classification
General Psychology
Psychological Disorders, Mental Health Treatment and Prevention
Free Keywords
effort‐based decision‐making; negative symptoms; validation study; ZIS 242
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 1-9
Journal
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 32 (2023) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1943
ISSN
1557-0657
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed