SynthesisBMC psychiatry2021
Adult ADHD and emerging models of maladaptive personality: a meta-analytic review.
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- How Do Personality Dysfunction and Maladaptive Personality Traits Predict Time to Premature Discontinuation of Pharmacological Treatment of ADHD?Journal of attention disorders · 2025Article
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- Examination of Changes in Levels of Empathy and Narcissistic Pathology After Treatment of Adult with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.Alpha psychiatry · 2024Article
- Using rodent data to elucidate dopaminergic mechanisms of ADHD: Implications for human personality.Personality neuroscience · 2024Review
- A systematic meta-review of systematic reviews on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2023Review
- Mental health in Canadian children and adolescents during COVID-19 pandemic: the role of personality and, coping and stress responses.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Maladaptive Personality Traits in a Group of Patients with Substance Use Disorder and ADHD.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundADHD is a highly consequential disorder that is estimated to affect 2.5% of the adult population. Emerging models of psychopathology posit that disorders like ADHD can be usefully situated within general models of individual differences in personality, such as those recently implemented in the DSM and ICD for the diagnosis of personality disorder. Previous research and systematic reviews have linked adult ADHD to the personality traits Conscientious Inhibition and Negative Emotionality. However, there have been some inconsistencies in the literature and research embedding ADHD-personality connections in the DSM-5 and ICD-11 personality disorder models has been limited. The goal of this paper was to systematically review associations between adult ADHD and personality traits, organized within a maladaptive five factor framework.
methodA comprehensive literature search yielded 13 papers whose effects were meta-analyzed.
resultsResults supported associations between ADHD and low Conscientious Inhibition and high Negative Emotionality. However, interesting patterns of variability were observed, potentially related to issues such as instrumentation and facet variation.
conclusionResults support the clinical application of personality assessment for suggesting risk for ADHD symptoms, and point to important directions for further research.
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