1. Family environment moderates the relation of sluggish cognitive tempo to attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder inattention and depression
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Joseph W. Fredrick, Aaron M. Luebbe, Matthew A. Jarrett, G. Leonard Burns, Annie A. Garner, Jeffery N. Epstein, Kathryn J. Mancini, and Stephen P. Becker
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Adult ,Male ,050103 clinical psychology ,Adolescent ,Universities ,Poison control ,Comorbidity ,Suicide prevention ,Article ,Young Adult ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Injury prevention ,medicine ,Humans ,Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ,Cognitive Dysfunction ,Family ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Young adult ,Students ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Depression ,05 social sciences ,medicine.disease ,Clinical Psychology ,Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity ,Female ,Psychology ,Sluggish cognitive tempo ,050104 developmental & child psychology ,Clinical psychology ,Psychopathology - Abstract
Objectives The current study investigated whether a maladaptive family environment would moderate the strength of the relations of sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder inattention (ADHD-IN) and to depressive symptoms in a large sample of college students. Methods Participants (n = 3,172), between the ages of 18-29 (M ± SDage = 19.24 ± 1.52; 69.8% women; 80.4% White) and enrolled in five universities in the United States completed self-report measures of symptomatology, interparental conflict, and family expressiveness of emotions. Results A negative emotional climate strengthened relations of SCT with ADHD-IN and depressive symptoms. Moreover, the lack of a positive emotional climate strengthened the co-occurrence of SCT with depressive symptoms, though not with ADHD-IN. Conclusions The current study is the first to demonstrate that the family environment moderates the association between SCT and co-occurring symptomatology in young adults. more...
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- 2018
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