The relationship of compliance with inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity |
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| Authors: | Gisli H. Gudjonsson Jon Fridrik Sigurdsson |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Laboratory of Cognitive Neurorehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland;2. Division of Neurorehabilitation, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University Hospitals Geneva, Switzerland;3. Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland;1. The University of Queensland, School of Psychology, St Lucia 4072, Australia;2. The University of Queensland, Queensland Brain Institute, St Lucia 4072, Australia;1. Research Unit of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark;2. Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Switzerland;3. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity symptoms in predicting compliance. It was hypothesised that inattention symptoms are a better predictor of compliance than hyperactivity/impulsivity. There were two different groups of participants: 367 college students (both males and females) and 89 male prisoners. All participants had completed the Gudjonsson Compliance Scale (GCS) and the DSM-IV-TR (Screening) Checklist for adult ADHD symptoms. Significant correlations emerged between compliance and ADHD symptoms, but the correlations were higher for inattention than hyperactivity/impulsivity among both samples. This was confirmed by multiple regression analyses (hierarchical), which showed that the variance in compliance explained by ADHD inattention versus hyperactivity/impulsivity symptoms increased from 2% to 8% for college students and 8% to 24% for prisoners after entering inattention into the model (hyperactivity/impulsivity was entered first in the regression models). The findings suggest that inattention is a more powerful predictor of compliance than hyperactivity/impulsivity. This is a novel and an important finding. |
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