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ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2024

Children's emotional reactivity and negative affect predict future ADHD symptom severity beyond initial ADHD symptom severity.

Helena F Alacha, Paul J Rosen, Sara J Bufferd

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Article in European child & adolescent psychiatry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Helena F AlachaDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, 317 Life Sciences Building, Louisville, KY, 40292, USA. helena.alacha@louisville.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8418-8626
Paul J RosenDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, 571 S Floyd St, Louisville, KY, 40202, USA.
Sara J BufferdDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, 317 Life Sciences Building, Louisville, KY, 40292, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2915-4225
University of Louisville · US

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Abstract

Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) often experience significant emotion dysregulation. However, there is limited longitudinal data on associations between multiple aspects of emotion dysregulation and ADHD symptoms. Additionally, given substantial evidence that increased levels and variability of negative affect (NA) are identified in children with ADHD, it is important to examine the role of NA in this relationship. The present study used momentary and longitudinal data to examine the relation between two aspects of emotion dysregulation (emotional lability and emotional reactivity), the two ADHD symptom clusters separately (inattentive and hyperactive/impulsive), total ADHD symptom severity, and NA variability over a period of six months. Participants (N = 68) were parents of children aged 7-12 years old (M = 9.80, SD = 1.34) who completed baseline and 6-month follow-up reports of children's ADHD symptoms and emotion dysregulation as well as ecological momentary assessments (EMA) of their children's NA for one week. Results were threefold: (1) children's emotional reactivity predicted inattentive, hyperactive/impulsive, and total ADHD symptom severity above and beyond initial ADHD symptom severity, but emotional lability did not significantly predict severity of any ADHD symptom cluster; (2) NA variability predicted hyperactive/impulsive and total ADHD symptom severity, but not inattentive severity; and (3) initial ADHD symptom severity did not predict emotion dysregulation at follow-up. The current study provides novel insight regarding the longitudinal influence of specific aspects of emotion dysregulation and NA on ADHD symptom severity in children and suggests that targeting emotional reactivity could minimize ADHD symptom severity.

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Attention Deficit Disorder with HyperactivitySeverity of Illness IndexAffectAffective SymptomsChildEcological Momentary AssessmentEmotionsFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleADHD symptom severityEmotional reactivityEmotion dysregulationNegative affect

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