Abstract:

The present study examined the relations among scores on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and the Faber and O’Guinn Scale [13] in healthy participants and Dysexecutive patients. We predicted close relationship between scores on the Faber and O’Guinn Scale and scores on the Iowa Gambling Task. Consistent with our expectations and our previous findings, better performance on the Iowa Gambling Task were associated with lower scores on the compulsive buying scale. These findings suggest that both executive functioning and decision-making could be considered as two complementary cognitive markers of compulsive buying behaviour.