Capodieci Agnese, Martinussen Rhonda
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2017 Oct 11;8:1801. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01801. eCollection 2017.
The aim of this study was to examine the types of errors made by youth with and without a parent-reported diagnosis of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on a math fluency task and investigate the association between error types and youths' performance on measures of processing speed and working memory. Participants included 30 adolescents with ADHD and 39 typically developing peers between 14 and 17 years old matched in age and IQ. All youth completed standardized measures of math calculation and fluency as well as two tests of working memory and processing speed. Math fluency error patterns were examined. Adolescents with ADHD showed less proficient math fluency despite having similar math calculation scores as their peers. Group differences were also observed in error types with youth with ADHD making more switch errors than their peers. This research has important clinical applications for the assessment and intervention on math ability in students with ADHD.
本研究的目的是检验在一项数学流畅性任务中,有和没有家长报告的注意力缺陷多动障碍(ADHD)诊断的青少年所犯错误的类型,并调查错误类型与青少年在处理速度和工作记忆测量指标上的表现之间的关联。参与者包括30名患有ADHD的青少年和39名年龄在14至17岁之间、年龄和智商相匹配的发育正常的同龄人。所有青少年都完成了数学计算和流畅性的标准化测量,以及两项工作记忆和处理速度测试。对数学流畅性错误模式进行了检查。患有ADHD的青少年尽管数学计算分数与同龄人相似,但数学流畅性较差。在错误类型上也观察到了组间差异,患有ADHD的青少年比同龄人犯更多的转换错误。这项研究对ADHD学生数学能力的评估和干预具有重要的临床应用价值。