Knouse Laura E, Traeger Lara, O'Cleirigh Conall, Safren Steven A
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.
J Nerv Ment Dis. 2013 Oct;201(10):848-54. doi: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182a5bf33.
Relationships among attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and adult personality traits have not been examined in larger clinically diagnosed samples. We collected multisource ADHD symptom and self-report NEO Five-Factor Inventory (Costa and McCrae [Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc, 1992) data from 117 adults with ADHD and tested symptom-trait associations using structural equation modeling. The final model fit the data. Inattention was positively associated with neuroticism and negatively associated with conscientiousness. On the basis of ADHD expression in adulthood, hyperactivity and impulsivity were estimated as separate constructs and showed differential relationships to extraversion and agreeableness. A significant positive relationship between hyperactivity and conscientiousness arose in the context of other pathways. ADHD symptoms are reliably associated with personality traits, suggesting a complex interplay across development that warrants prospective study into adulthood.
注意力缺陷多动障碍（ADHD）症状与成人人格特质之间的关系尚未在更大规模的临床诊断样本中进行研究。我们收集了117名患有ADHD的成年人的多源ADHD症状数据以及自我报告的NEO五因素人格量表（科斯塔和麦克雷[佛罗里达州敖德萨：心理评估资源公司，1992年]）数据，并使用结构方程模型测试了症状与特质之间的关联。最终模型与数据拟合良好。注意力不集中与神经质呈正相关，与尽责性呈负相关。根据成年期ADHD的表现，多动和冲动被估计为独立的结构，并与外向性和宜人性呈现出不同的关系。在其他路径的背景下，多动与尽责性之间出现了显著的正相关关系。ADHD症状与人格特质可靠相关，这表明在整个发展过程中存在复杂的相互作用，值得对成年期进行前瞻性研究。
