Catastrophizing and Risk-Taking

Background: Catastrophizing, when an individual overestimates the probability of a severe negative outcome, is related to various aspects mental ill-health. Here, we further characterize catastrophizing by investigating extent which self-reported associated with risk-taking, using online behavioural task and computational modelling. Methods: We performed two studies: pilot study (n = 69) main 263). In study, participants Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART), alongside other tasks (reported in Supplement), completed health questionnaires. Based on findings from pilot, explored risk-taking more detail versions either high or low cost for bursting balloon. Results: there was significant relationship between self-report scores (but not high) version BART. Computational modelling BART revealed no any parameter Catastrophizing task. Conclusions: show that increased may be reduced measures but were unable identify correlate this effect.