Suboptimal decision making and interpersonal problems in ADHD: longitudinal evidence from a laboratory task.

ABSTRACT: Over half of children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) display interpersonal and social problems. Several lines of research suggest that suboptimal decision making, the ability to adjust choices to different risk-varying options, influences poorer choices made in social interactions. We thus measured decision making and its prediction of social problems longitudinally with the Cambridge Gambling Task in children with ADHD over four years. Children with ADHD had shown suboptimal decision making driven mainly by delay aversion at baseline and we expected this to be a stabile trait which would predict greater parent-reported social problems. From the baseline assessment (n = 70), 67% participated at the follow-up assessment, 21 from the ADHD group and 26 from the typically

SUBMITTER: Sorensen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10951300 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature