ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2014
A twin study of the relationships among inattention, hyperactivity/impulsivity and sluggish cognitive tempo problems.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Cognitive disengagement syndrome (sluggish cognitive tempo) and medical conditions: a systematic review and call for future research.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2024Pooled it
- The Internal, External, and Diagnostic Validity of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo: A Meta-Analysis and Critical Review.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2016Pooled it
- Interpersonal trauma exposure is associated with cognitive disengagement syndrome symptoms in early adolescents.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Prevalence of Pure Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome Without Co-Occurring ADHD in an Elementary School Sample of Children: A Two-Stage Epidemiological Study.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome Symptoms and ADHD Dimensions in Relation To Children's Daily Life Executive Functioning Deficits.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Exploring the Relationship of Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder with Emotional Dysregulation: A Twin Study in Childhood and Adolescence.Methods and protocols · 2025Article
- Examining ADHD and Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome Symptoms in Relation to Food Insecurity in Early Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Bibliometric Trends and Thematic Areas in Research on Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome in Children: A Comprehensive Review.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Review
- The prevalence of SCT in China, its comorbidity with ADHD and its association with life events and parental-rearing behaviors.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Psycholinguistic profiling of children with sluggish cognitive tempo.Clinical linguistics & phonetics · 2023Article
- A Twin Study of the Relationships between Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome and Anxiety Phenotypes in Childhood and Adolescence.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Report of a Work Group on Sluggish Cognitive Tempo: Key Research Directions and a Consensus Change in Terminology to Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2023Article
- The Association between ADHD and Celiac Disease in Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Testing the Longitudinal Structure and Change in Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and Inattentive Behaviors From Early Through Middle Childhood.Assessment · 2021Article
- Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents Predict Adulthood Psychopathology.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Article
- What cognitive processes are "sluggish" in sluggish cognitive tempo?Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2019Article
- Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and Personality: Links to BIS/BAS Sensitivity and the Five Factor Model.Journal of research in personality · 2018Article
- Does Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Fit Within a Bi-Factor Model of ADHD?Journal of attention disorders · 2017Article
- Sluggish cognitive tempo is associated with suicide risk in psychiatrically hospitalized children.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2016Article
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and sluggish cognitive tempo throughout childhood: temporal invariance and stability from preschool through ninth grade.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2016Article
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Abstract
We investigated the etiological relationships between the three ADHD dimensions of Inattentive Problems (INP), Hyperactivity-Impulsivity Problems (HIP) and Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT) as measured by the CBCL 6-18 questionnaire. Multivariate models were applied to 398 twin pairs (374 boys and 422 girls) aged 8 to 17 years (M = 13.06, SD = 2.59) belonging to the population-based Italian Twin Registry. The INP, HIP and SCT problem scores were moderately-to-substantially (range 0.29-0.47) intercorrelated. The best fitting model showed that these 3 dimensions are correlated both at the genetic (correlations' range: 0.65-0.83) and the environmental (correlations: 0.29 and 0.44) levels, but they are also distinct. While SCT showed moderate heritability and large non-shared environmental influences, variance for both INP and HIP was substantially explained by genetic influences. We also found evidence of negative sibling interaction for INP, implying that a given behavior in one twin leads to an opposite behavior in the co-twin. Our results support at the etiological level the findings of previous psychometric and longitudinal studies of ADHD, which yielded evidence of the 3 distinct-albeit correlated-problem dimensions of inattentiveness, hyperactivity-impulsivity, and sluggish cognitive tempo.
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