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Toward Establishing a Standard Symptom Set for Assessing Sluggish Cognitive Tempo in Children: Evidence From Teacher Ratings in a Community Sample.
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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
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- Cross-Sectional and Quasi-Longitudinal Examination of Childhood and Adult Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome, Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and Insomnia.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- ADHD and cognitive disengagement syndrome symptoms related to self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in early adolescents.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Testing the Longitudinal Structure and Change in Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and Inattentive Behaviors From Early Through Middle Childhood.Assessment · 2021Article
- Preschool Neuropsychological Predictors of School-aged Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and Inattentive Behaviors.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
- Assessing sluggish cognitive tempo and ADHD inattention in elementary students: Empirical differentiation, invariance across sex and grade, and measurement precision.Psychological assessment · 2020Article
- Application of the Bifactor S - 1 Model to Multisource Ratings of ADHD/ODD Symptoms: an Appropriate Bifactor Model for Symptom Ratings.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Article
- Sluggish Cognitive Tempo in Adolescents with and without ADHD: Differentiation from Adolescent-Reported ADHD Inattention and Unique Associations with Internalizing Domains.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Article
- Practical consequences of model misfit when using rating scales to assess the severity of attention problems in children.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2019Article
- Advancing the study of sluggish cognitive tempo via DSM, RDoC, and hierarchical models of psychopathology.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2019Review
- Advancing the Multi-Informant Assessment of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo: Child Self-Report in Relation to Parent and Teacher Ratings of SCT and Impairment.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2019Article
- Sluggish cognitive tempo and student-teacher relationship quality: Short-term longitudinal and concurrent associations.School psychology quarterly : the official journal of the Division of School Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2018Article
- Clinical differentiation of sluggish cognitive tempo and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2018Article
- Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and ADHD Symptoms in a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Children: Differentiation Using Categorical and Dimensional Approaches.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
- Cognitive disengagement syndrome: A construct at the crossroads.The American psychologistReview
- Personality Traits in Relation to Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome and ADHD Inattention in Two Samples of Children.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
Despite increasing interest in sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) in children, the field is stymied by the lack of a standard symptom set that can be used across studies. Without a standard symptom set, it is difficult to determine if differences across studies are due to methodological or sample differences, or simply the way SCT was measured. To move the field toward a standard symptom set, this study evaluates a teacher-report rating scale of SCT revised based on recent meta-analytic findings that identified optimal items for distinguishing SCT from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder inattention (ADHD-IN). Participants were 1,349 students (50.7% male) from grades 2 to 5. Teachers provided ratings of SCT, ADHD-IN, academic impairment, and social impairment. Exploratory structural equation modeling found 15 of the 16 SCT items to demonstrate excellent convergent validity and discriminant validity with ADHD-IN. The measurement properties of the SCT construct were also invariant across sex. SCT was uniquely associated with both academic and social impairment above and beyond ADHD-IN and sex. Although replication and extension is needed, the current study provides the strongest evidence to date of a possible standard symptom set that can be used across studies examining SCT in children.
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