Does Childhood Positive Self-Perceptual Bias Mediate Adolescent Risky Behavior in Youth from the MTA* Study?

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• Alternative Title:
  J Consult Clin Psychol
• Personal Author:
  Hoza, Betsy ; McQuade, Julia D. ; Murray-Close, Dianna ; Shoulberg, Erin ; Molina, Brooke S. G. ; Arnold, L. Eugene ; Swanson, James ; Hechtman, Lily
• Description:
  Objective
  
  This study’s primary aim was to examine whether the positive self-perceptual bias present in many youth with ADHD (Hoza et al., 2004; Hoza, Pelham, Dobbs, Owens, & Pillow, 2002) mediates the relation of childhood ADHD status to later risky behaviors.
  
  Method
  
  Using a subset of children with ADHD and comparison children (n = 645) from the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD, we predicted that a positive bias in childhood would partially or fully mediate the relation between having ADHD and risky driving and sexual behaviors eight years later.
  
  Results
  
  Results strongly supported this hypothesis for risky driving behavior, but only provided limited support for risky sexual behavior.
  
  Conclusions
  
  Taken together, findings suggest that future research should explore whether self-perceptual bias may be a useful target of intervention for children with ADHD.
  
  
• Subjects:
  ADHD Adolescent Adolescent Behavior Adult Article Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity Automobile Driving Child Conduct Disorder Female Humans Male Positive Bias Randomized Controlled Trials As Topic Risk-Taking Risky Behavior Risky Driving Risky Sex Self-perception Self Concept Sexual Behavior Young Adult

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• Source:
  J Consult Clin Psychol. 81(5):846-858.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  90DD0645/DD/NCBDD CDC HHS/United States ; MH65899/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; N01MH12004/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; N01MH12007/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; N01MH12008/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; N01MH12009/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; N01MH12010/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; N01MH12011/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; N01MH12012/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; R01 MH065899/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; U01MH50440/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; U01MH50447/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; U01MH50453/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; U01MH50454/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; U01MH50461/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; U01MH50467/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; UL1 TR000153/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  81
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4f4fe979146eb5bb0e99ea0bca4bd0c68ddd7527cd9259a66192667cdc9374ff
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/29886/cdc_29886_DS1.pdf
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