ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2017
Emotional Understanding, Reactivity, and Regulation in Young Children with ADHD Symptoms.
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- Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents With Psychiatric Disorders. A Narrative Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
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- Developing a therapeutic app based on the emotional Stroop task for objective discovery of daily life issues for people with ADHD.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Children's emotional reactivity and negative affect predict future ADHD symptom severity beyond initial ADHD symptom severity.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Proprioception, Emotion and Social Responsiveness in Children with Developmental Disorders: An Exploratory Study in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cerebral Palsy and Different Neurodevelopmental Situations.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Training Willpower: Reducing Costs and Valuing Effort.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- Alteration of Emotion Knowledge and Its Relationship with Emotion Regulation and Psychopathological Behavior in Children with Cerebral Palsy.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- Modular Psychotherapy Outcomes for Youth With Different Latent Profiles of Irritability and Emotion Dysregulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Abnormal alpha modulation in response to human eye gaze predicts inattention severity in children with ADHD.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2019Article
- Positive emotional attention bias in young children with symptoms of ADHD.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2018Article
- Neural Correlates of Emotion Reactivity and Regulation in Young Children with ADHD Symptoms.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2017Article
- Multimodal Assessment of Emotion Dysregulation in Children with and without ADHD and Disruptive Behavior Disorders.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
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Abstract
The goal of the present study was to examine whether young children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms experience difficulties with emotional understanding, reactivity, and regulation. Participants were 64 children, 4 to 7 years of age (43 boys, 20 girls), 29 with ADHD symptoms and 34 typically developing children. Children completed an emotion matching task and parents reported on child lability and emotional regulation. Children also completed a frustrating computer task. Facial expressions of emotions were coded and children self reported affect during the task. Parent reports indicated heightened lability and impaired emotional regulation abilities in children with ADHD symptoms. Compared to typically developing children, children with ADHD symptoms demonstrated emotional understanding impairments in matching similar expressions and matching expressions to situations, but not in producing expression labels or matching expression labels to images. Self-reports of negative affect during the frustration task indicated that children with ADHD symptoms experienced more difficulty with emotional regulation than typically developing children. Behavioral observations during the frustration task indicated that the two groups demonstrated a similar increase in expressed negative affect during frustration; however, children with ADHD symptoms showed higher levels of negative affect across all four conditions of the task. This study suggests that the deficits documented in older children with ADHD are already evident during the preschool years, and distinct from the developmentally appropriate emotional dysregulation seen in typically developing preschoolers.
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