Abo Elella Eman, Hassan Ghada A M, Sabry Walaa, Hendawy Heba, Shorub Eman, Zyada Fadia, Medany Omar
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, The WHO Collaborating Center for Mental Health Research & Training, Ain Shams University, Abbasseyia, Ramses Street Extension, PO Box: 11657 Dair Al-Malak, Cairo, Egypt.
Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2017 Nov;22(4):216-223. doi: 10.1111/camh.12236. Epub 2017 Aug 30.
The link between types and severity of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and trait emotional intelligence (TEI) is still underinvestigated, especially in children. We aimed to examine the relationship between TEI and ADHD symptoms in a sample of Egyptian children.
The study included 50 children with ADHD, who were compared on the basis of their TEI and contrasted with 25 matched healthy controls. They were subjected to the Arabic version of the following scales: Connors scale 3rd edition, parent rating form, Kiddie-Schedule for affective disorders and Schizophrenia present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL), Stanford Binet intelligence scale, 4th edition and Trait Emotional Intelligence Child form (TEI) and a semistructured clinical data sheet for sociodemographic data.
Using TEI scale, the control group was shown to have higher scores in TEI than cases, there was a high significant difference with regards to eight of nine TEI facets together with the TEI global score. Moreover, the control group significantly outperformed ADHD children with mixed and hyperactive subtypes on TEI global score in all facets except for adaptability. Meanwhile, the inattentive group performed significantly poorer than those in the control group on TEI global score, adaptability, emotional expression, self-motivation and emotion regulation facets. Trait Emotional Intelligence was negatively correlated with four of ADHD symptom groups assessed by Connors test, namely; impulsivity, cognitive, social problem, and emotional liability symptoms. However, Impulsivity was negatively correlated with all the domains of TEI except for adaptability and emotional expression. On the other hand, oppositional symptoms did not show a significant correlation with any of the TEI facets.
Trait emotional intelligence is highly impaired in children with ADHD and emotional deficits are corner stone features of that disorder, low impulsivity facet of TEI is highly correlated with social problems and poor peer relations.
注意力缺陷多动障碍（ADHD）症状的类型和严重程度与特质情绪智力（TEI）之间的联系仍未得到充分研究，尤其是在儿童中。我们旨在研究埃及儿童样本中TEI与ADHD症状之间的关系。
该研究纳入了50名患有ADHD的儿童，根据他们的TEI进行比较，并与25名匹配的健康对照进行对比。他们接受了以下量表的阿拉伯语版本测试：康纳斯量表第三版、家长评定表、情感障碍和精神分裂症儿童版（K-SADS-PL）、斯坦福-比奈智力量表第四版、特质情绪智力儿童版（TEI）以及一份用于社会人口统计学数据的半结构化临床数据表。
使用TEI量表，对照组在TEI上的得分高于病例组，在九个TEI方面中的八个以及TEI总分方面存在高度显著差异。此外，在除适应性之外的所有方面，对照组在TEI总分上显著优于混合型和多动型ADHD儿童。同时，注意力不集中组在TEI总分、适应性、情绪表达、自我激励和情绪调节方面的表现明显比对照组差。特质情绪智力与通过康纳斯测试评估的ADHD症状组中的四个呈负相关，即冲动性、认知、社交问题和情绪易感性症状。然而，冲动性与TEI的所有领域呈负相关，除了适应性和情绪表达。另一方面，对立症状与任何TEI方面均未显示出显著相关性。
ADHD儿童的特质情绪智力严重受损，情绪缺陷是该障碍的核心特征，TEI的低冲动性方面与社交问题和不良同伴关系高度相关。
