Division of Population and Public Health Science, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
Department of Pediatrics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, 3435 Main Street, Building #26, Buffalo, NY, 14214, USA.
BMC Public Health. 2023 Oct 12;23(1):1983. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-16832-z.
Individuals with obesity tend to discount the future (delay discounting), focusing on immediate gratification. Delay discounting is reliably related to indicators of economic scarcity (i.e., insufficient resources), including lower income and decreased educational attainment in adults. It is unclear whether the impact of these factors experienced by parents also influence child delay discounting between the ages of 8 and 12-years in families with obesity.
The relationship between indices of family income and delay discounting was studied in 452 families with parents and 6-12-year-old children with obesity. Differences in the relationships between parent economic, educational and Medicaid status, and parent and child delay discounting were tested.
Results showed lower parent income (p = 0.019) and Medicaid status (p = 0.021) were differentially related to greater parent but not child delay discounting among systematic responders.
These data suggest differences in how indicators of scarcity influence delay discounting for parents and children, indicating that adults with scarce resources may be shaped to focus on immediate needs instead of long-term goals. It is possible that parents can reduce the impact of economic scarcity on their children during preadolescent years. These findings suggest a need for policy change to alleviate the burden of scarce conditions and intervention to modify delay discounting rate and to improve health-related choices and to address weight disparities.
肥胖个体往往对未来（延迟折扣）持轻视态度，注重即时满足。延迟折扣与经济匮乏的指标（即资源不足）密切相关，包括成年人收入较低和受教育程度降低。目前尚不清楚父母经历的这些因素是否会影响肥胖家庭中 8 至 12 岁儿童的延迟折扣。
在 452 个肥胖儿童的父母和 6-12 岁儿童的家庭中，研究了家庭收入指数与延迟折扣之间的关系。检验了父母的经济、教育和医疗补助状况与父母和儿童的延迟折扣之间的关系差异。
结果表明，系统应答者中，父母的收入较低（p=0.019）和医疗补助状况较差（p=0.021）与父母的延迟折扣率更高而不是儿童的延迟折扣率更高有差异相关。
这些数据表明，稀缺指标对父母和儿童的延迟折扣的影响存在差异，这表明资源匮乏的成年人可能更注重眼前的需求而不是长期目标。父母可能会在儿童的青春期前减少经济匮乏对他们的影响。这些发现表明，需要政策改变以减轻稀缺条件的负担，并进行干预以改变延迟折扣率，以改善与健康相关的选择，并解决体重差异。
