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JOURNAL OF ATTENTION DISORDERS
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 452-460Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1087054710368636
Keywords
ADHD; adults; affect recognition; emotion; subtypes
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- National Institute for Mental Health [MH066310, MH001053]
- University of California Davis Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities [90DD0596]
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Objective: This study compared affect recognition abilities between adults with and without ADHD. Method: The sample consisted of 51 participants (34 men, 17 women) divided into 3 groups: ADHD-combined type (ADHD-C; n = 17), ADHD-predominantly inattentive type (ADHD-I; n = 16), and controls (n = 18). The mean age was 34 years. Affect recognition abilities were assessed by the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy (DANVA). Results: ANOVA showed that the ADHD-I group made more fearful emotion errors relative to the control group. Inattentive symptoms were positively correlated, whereas hyperactive-impulsive symptoms were negatively correlated with affect recognition errors. Conclusion: These results suggested that affect recognition abilities may be impaired in adults with ADHD and that affect recognition abilities are more adversely affected by inattentive than hyperactive-impulsive symptoms. (J. of Att. Dis. 2011; 15(6) 452-460)
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