Department of Learning, Instruction and Teacher Education, University of Haifa, Israel.
Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2022 Jun;68(4):773-782. doi: 10.1177/00207640211005501. Epub 2021 Apr 15.
ADHD predicts higher levels of antisocial behaviour and distress while religiosity is related to lower levels of both. This raises the hitherto unexplored question of how these variables interact.
The objective of this study was to explore how religious individuals with ADHD fare in terms of these psychosocial outcomes.
806 secular, religious and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish adults in Israel completed measures of ADHD symptoms and treatment, emotional strengths and difficulties, religious belonging, religious behaviour and antisocial behaviour.
Findings supported an additive-interactive model in which religiosity (a) correlates with lower levels of ADHD symptoms and diagnosis, (b) directly relates to less antisocial behaviour and less distress and (c) moderates the negative effects of ADHD on antisocial behaviour and distress. Findings further suggest that religious observance rather than religious belonging drives most of the moderating effect of religiosity, while religious belonging rather than religious observance drives negative attitudes towards ADHD.
Implications include the importance of treating religious individuals with ADHD in a more nuanced manner and of providing more information on ADHD to religious communities.
ADHD 可预测更高水平的反社会行为和痛苦，而宗教信仰则与两者的低水平有关。这就提出了一个迄今为止尚未探讨的问题，即这些变量如何相互作用。
本研究的目的是探讨 ADHD 患者的宗教信仰如何影响这些心理社会结果。
在以色列，806 名世俗、宗教和极端正统犹太成年人完成了 ADHD 症状和治疗、情绪优势和困难、宗教归属、宗教行为和反社会行为的测量。
研究结果支持了一种累加交互模型，即宗教信仰（a）与 ADHD 症状和诊断的低水平相关，（b）与较少的反社会行为和较少的痛苦直接相关，（c）调节 ADHD 对反社会行为和痛苦的负面影响。研究结果进一步表明，宗教行为而非宗教归属驱动着宗教信仰对 ADHD 的大部分调节作用，而宗教归属而非宗教行为驱动着对 ADHD 的负面态度。
这意味着需要以更细致的方式治疗患有 ADHD 的宗教人士，并向宗教社区提供更多关于 ADHD 的信息。
