Alali-Morlevy Klodin, Goldfarb Liat
University of Haifa, Israel.
J Atten Disord. 2022 Apr;26(6):843-856. doi: 10.1177/10870547211036511. Epub 2021 Aug 2.
Individuals with an ADHD diagnosis have increased levels of interfering thoughts, especially in the form of mind wandering. This was mostly investigated in sustained attention tasks; hence it is unclear whether the findings are only due to their difficulties in those types of tasks. Moreover, it is unclear how the amount of control invested in the task will affect those differences between control and ADHD groups.
ADHD and matched control groups performed the Stroop task under high and low conflict conditions while measuring their interfering thoughts level.
Individuals with ADHD have more interfering thoughts compared to a control group even when they are able to change their control level according to the task conflict.
Interfering thoughts are an independent predictor of ADHD impairments, observed regardless of the degree of control invested in the task.
被诊断患有注意力缺陷多动障碍（ADHD）的个体存在更多干扰性思维，尤其是以走神的形式。这一现象大多是在持续性注意力任务中进行研究的；因此，尚不清楚这些发现是否仅仅是由于他们在这类任务中存在困难。此外，尚不清楚在任务中投入的控制量将如何影响对照组和ADHD组之间的这些差异。
ADHD组和匹配的对照组在高冲突和低冲突条件下执行斯特鲁普任务，同时测量他们的干扰性思维水平。
与对照组相比，患有ADHD的个体即使能够根据任务冲突改变其控制水平，仍有更多干扰性思维。
干扰性思维是ADHD损伤的一个独立预测因素，无论在任务中投入的控制程度如何都会观察到这一点。
