Executive Functions in Girls With and Without Childhood ADHD Followed Through Emerging Adulthood: Developmental Trajectories.

ABSTRACT: Using an all-female sample, we examined trajectories of executive functioning (EF) performance from childhood through emerging adulthood-and their prediction of key emerging-adult outcomes. One hundred forty girls carefully diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and 88 matched comparison girls were administered EF measurements assessing global EF, response inhibition, and verbal working memory during childhood (M age = 9.5 years), adolescence (M age = 14.1 years), the earliest years of adulthood (M age = 19.6 years), and the end of emerging adulthood (M age = 25.6 years). Retention rates were excellent. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to estimate growth curves for each EF measure. The linear EF slopes were then used to explore how c

SUBMITTER: Gordon CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6821580 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature