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Factors Associated with Healthy and Impaired Social Functioning in Middle-School Adolescents with ADHD

Petca, Andra Raisa
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7318-9815
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1422389444

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2015, Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, Clinical Psychology (Arts and Sciences).
There is variability in the extent to which adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) demonstrate social impairment, as the same diagnosis does not necessarily entail impairment in the same area of functioning. The current study is a cross sectional examination of enhancers to healthy social functioning and risk factors to social impairment in 324 middle school youth (ages 10-14 years) with ADHD, considering both parent and adolescent report of social functioning. A series of binary logistic regression analyses were used to evaluate risk-resilience models for social functioning, including testing compensatory (i.e., main; buffering) and protective (i.e., interaction) effects of enhancers in the presence of risk factors. Youth conduct problems, youth depression and negative parenting emerged as significant risk factors to social impairment. Adolescent self-perceived social acceptance, activity participation (breadth and intensity) and parental involvement acted as enhancers to healthy social functioning. Of these enhancers, activity participation and parental involvement showed buffering effects against the negative impact of the risk factors on social functioning. None of the enhancers displayed protective effects. The findings of this study enhance the knowledge pertaining to social functioning in a group of young adolescents with ADHD, which has been an understudied population relative to younger children with similar problems.
Steven W. Evans, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Julie Sarno Owens, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Brian T. Wymbs, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
93 p.
Psychology
adolescents; ADHD; social functioning; risk factors; resilience

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  • Petca, A. R. (2015). Factors Associated with Healthy and Impaired Social Functioning in Middle-School Adolescents with ADHD [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1422389444

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Petca, Andra. Factors Associated with Healthy and Impaired Social Functioning in Middle-School Adolescents with ADHD. 2015. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1422389444.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Petca, Andra. "Factors Associated with Healthy and Impaired Social Functioning in Middle-School Adolescents with ADHD." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1422389444

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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