Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA.
J Atten Disord. 2021 Apr;25(6):851-864. doi: 10.1177/1087054719864636. Epub 2019 Jul 18.
Findings from extant studies of the relationship between ADHD-related emotion regulation and working memory deficits have been equivocal, and their correlational designs preclude inferences about the functional relationship between working memory demands and emotion regulation. This study aimed to experimentally examine the functional relationship between varying working memory demands and ADHD-related emotion regulation deficits. Overt emotion regulation behaviors were coded while children with and without ADHD completed experimental tasks that manipulated low and high working memory demands. Compared with typically developing children, children with ADHD exhibited large-magnitude overall emotion expression deficits, disproportionately greater self-criticism during high working memory conditions, and disproportionately greater positive emotion expression during low working memory demand conditions. These findings suggest that working memory demands are functionally related to emotion regulation deficits exhibited by children with ADHD and may explicate variability of emotion regulation difficulties related to environmental demands.
现有研究 ADHD 相关情绪调节与工作记忆缺陷之间关系的结果一直存在争议，而且它们的相关设计排除了关于工作记忆需求和情绪调节之间功能关系的推断。本研究旨在通过实验检验不同工作记忆需求与 ADHD 相关情绪调节缺陷之间的功能关系。在有和没有 ADHD 的儿童完成操纵低和高工作记忆需求的实验任务时，对明显的情绪调节行为进行了编码。与正常发育的儿童相比，患有 ADHD 的儿童表现出整体情绪表达缺陷的幅度较大，在高工作记忆条件下自我批评的比例较大，在低工作记忆需求条件下积极情绪表达的比例较大。这些发现表明，工作记忆需求与 ADHD 儿童表现出的情绪调节缺陷具有功能上的关系，并且可能阐明与环境需求相关的情绪调节困难的可变性。
