School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia.
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2009 Sep;38(5):650-60. doi: 10.1080/15374410903103627.
This study addressed why girls are less likely to be referred for mental health services for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than boys. Ninety-six parents of children with elevated ADHD symptoms and 140 elementary school teachers read vignettes about children with ADHD. Half of the participants read vignettes with boys' names, and half read the same vignettes but with girls' names. Participants then rated their likeliness to seek or recommend services for the child in each vignette. Parents and teachers were less likely to seek or recommend services for girls than boys with ADHD, but results did not support the hypothesis that this is because girls are less disruptive than boys. Rather, differences in service seeking were explained by the fact that parents and teachers believed that learning assistance is less effective for girls than boys with ADHD.
这项研究探讨了为什么女孩接受注意力缺陷/多动障碍（ADHD）心理健康服务的可能性低于男孩。96 名有明显 ADHD 症状的儿童的家长和 140 名小学教师阅读了有关 ADHD 儿童的小插曲。一半的参与者阅读了带有男孩名字的小插曲，另一半则阅读了相同的小插曲，但名字是女孩的。然后，参与者根据每个小插曲中的孩子的情况，对他们寻求或推荐服务的可能性进行评分。与患有 ADHD 的男孩相比，父母和教师更不愿意为患有 ADHD 的女孩寻求或推荐服务，但结果并不支持这样一种假设，即这是因为女孩不如男孩具有破坏性。相反，服务寻求的差异可以用父母和教师认为学习援助对患有 ADHD 的女孩不如男孩有效的事实来解释。
