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Does Childhood Positive Self-Perceptual Bias Mediate Adolescent Risky Behavior in Youth from the MTA* Study?
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Jul 08 2013
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Source: J Consult Clin Psychol. 81(5):846-858.
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Alternative Title:J Consult Clin Psychol
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Volume:81
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