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Revista Colombiana de Psiquiatría
Print version ISSN 0034-7450
Abstract
SALCEDO PALACIOS, Dii Dayana; RAMIREZ NOVA, Yeimy Johanna and ACOSTA BARRETO, María Rocío. Executive function and behavior in university drinkers. rev.colomb.psiquiatr. [online]. 2015, vol.44, n.1, pp.3-12. ISSN 0034-7450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcp.2015.01.004.
Objectives: Establish the profile of executive function and behavior in fifty consumers of alcohol are located in a high-risk level according to the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and which belong to different universities in the city of Bogota. Material and methods: Was used analytical transverse design, and were taken as study variables executive function (inhibition, monitoring, sequencing, planning, cognitive flexibility, working memory, attentional control, categorization and concept formation) and executive behavior (decision making, impulse control, emotional feedback, empathy and theory of mind). Results and conclutions: Results showed that there is a greater number of cognitive domains of executive function involved in contrast to those of executive behavior. Such is for inhibition, sequencing, attention control (processing speed), categorization, cognitive flexibility, self monitoring and planning.
Keywords : Consumption of alcohol; Executive function; Executive behavior; Analytical transverse design.