ArticlePsychiatry research2016
Slow sluggish cognitive tempo symptoms are associated with poorer academic performance in children with ADHD.
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- Systematic Review: Assessment of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Over the Past Decade.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Optimal Items for Assessing Sluggish Cognitive Tempo in Children Across Mother, Father, and Teacher Ratings.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Pooled it
- Sluggish Cognitive Tempo as a Possible Predictor of Methylphenidate Response in Children With ADHD: A Randomized Controlled Trial.The Journal of clinical psychiatryTrial
- Cognitive disengagement syndrome and peer relationships of youth with critical congenital heart defects.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Associations Between Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and Academic Achievement in Adolescents: A Mediated Moderation Model.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Cognitive disengagement syndrome in pediatric patients with long COVID: associations with mood, anxiety, and functional impairment.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2024Article
- 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
- 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
- Academic functioning in children with and without sluggish cognitive tempo.Journal of school psychology · 2022Article
- Sluggish Cognitive Tempo in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Abnormal physiological responses toward sensory stimulus are related to the attention deficits in children with sluggish cognitive tempo.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- The contribution of sluggish cognitive tempo to processing speed in survivors of pediatric brain tumors.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2021Article
- Examining the Role of Attention Deficits in the Social Problems and Withdrawn Behavior of Children With Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Autistic and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Traits Are Associated with Suboptimal Performance among Japanese University Students.JMA journal · 2020Article
- Neuro-physiological correlates of sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) symptoms in school-aged children.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2020Article
- Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Predicts Academic Fluency, Beyond Contributions of Core Academic Skills, Attention, and Motor Speed.Journal of attention disorders · 2019Article
- Toward Establishing a Standard Symptom Set for Assessing Sluggish Cognitive Tempo in Children: Evidence From Teacher Ratings in a Community Sample.Assessment · 2019Article
- Differential impact of trait sluggish cognitive tempo and ADHD inattention in early childhood on adolescent functioning.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2018Article
- Sluggish Cognitive Tempo is Associated With Poorer Study Skills, More Executive Functioning Deficits, and Greater Impairment in College Students.Journal of clinical psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) symptoms may confer risk for academic impairment in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We investigated SCT in relation to academic performance and impairment in 252 children (ages 6-12, 67% boys) with ADHD. Parents and teachers completed SCT and academic impairment ratings, and achievement in reading, math, and spelling was assessed. Simultaneous regressions controlling for IQ, ADHD, and comorbidities were conducted. Total SCT predicted parent-rated impairments in writing, mathematics, and overall school but not reading. Parent-rated SCT Slow predicted poorer reading and spelling, but not math achievement. Teacher-rated SCT Slow predicted poorer spelling and math, but not reading achievement. Parent-rated SCT Slow predicted greater academic impairment ratings across all domains, whereas teacher-rated SCT Slow predicted greater impairment in writing only. Age and gender did not moderate these relationships with the exception of math impairment; SCT slow predicted math impairment for younger but not older children. Parent and teacher SCT Sleepy and Daydreamy ratings were not significant predictors. SCT Slow appears to be uniquely related to academic problems in ADHD, and may be important to assess and potentially target in intervention. More work is needed to better understand the nature of SCT Slow symptoms in relation to inattention and amotivation.
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