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Mind wandering during attention performance: Effects of ADHD-inattention symptomatology, negative mood, ruminative response style and working memory capacity.
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- Examining the effects of a modified SART when measuring mind-wandering.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
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- Dimensions of inattention: Cognitive, behavioral, and affective consequences.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Increased Screen Time as a Cause of Declining Physical, Psychological Health, and Sleep Patterns: A Literary Review.Cureus · 2022Review
- Individual differences in dimensions of mind wandering: the mediating role of emotional valence and intentionality.Psychological research · 2022Article
- Inattentive and hyperactive traits differentially associate with interindividual functional synchrony during video viewing in young children without ADHD.Cerebral cortex communications · 2022Article
- Neutral and negative mood induction in executive tasks of working memory.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2021Article
- Testing the attention-distractibility trait.Memory & cognition · 2021Article
- Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Symptoms, But Not ADHD or Internalizing Symptoms, Are Uniquely Related to Self-Reported Mind-Wandering in Adolescents With ADHD.Journal of attention disorders · 2021Article
- Peer victimization and the association with hippocampal development and working memory in children with ADHD and typically-developing children.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveIn adulthood, depressive mood is often comorbid with ADHD, but its role in ADHD-inattentiveness and especially relations with mind wandering remains to be elucidated. This study investigated the effects of laboratory-induced dysphoric mood on task-unrelated mind wandering and its consequences on cognitive task performance in college students with high (n = 46) or low (n = 44) ADHD-Inattention symptomatology and Hyperactivity/Impulsivity symptoms in the normal range.
methodsThese non-clinical high/low ADHD-Inattention symptom groups underwent negative or positive mood induction after which mind wandering frequency was measured in a sustained attention (SART), and a reading task. Effects of ruminative response style and working memory capacity on mind wandering frequency were also investigated.
resultsSignificantly higher frequencies of self -reported mind wandering in daily life, in the SART and reading task were reported in the ADHD-Inattention symptom group, with detrimental effects on text comprehension in the reading task. Induced dysphoric mood did specifically enhance the frequency of mind wandering in the ADHD-Inattention symptom group only during the SART, and was related to their higher self-reported intrusive ruminative response styles. Working memory capacity did not differ between high/low attention groups and did not influence any of the reported effects.
conclusionsThese combined results suggest that in a non-clinical sample with high ADHD-inattention symptoms, dysphoric mood and a ruminative response style seem to be more important determinants of dysfunctional mind wandering than a failure in working memory capacity/executive control, and perhaps need other ways of remediation, like cognitive behavioral therapy or mindfulness training.
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