Do Childhood Emotional Lability and ADHD Symptoms Have Shared Neuropsychological Roots?

Emotional Lability (EL) is a source of impairment in multiple mental disorders of children, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It has been proposed that the overlap between EL and ADHD symptoms is the result of common neuropsychological deficits. The aim of the present study...

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Publicado en:Journal of Psychopathology & Behavioral Assessment Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 491 - 506
Autores principales: Van Liefferinge, Dagmar, Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S., Danckaerts, Marina, Van Broeck, Nady, van der Oord, Saskia
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Publicado: Springer Nature Sep2021
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          Van Liefferinge, Dagmar
          Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S.
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          Van Broeck, Nady
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          Emotional Lability In Infancy and Childhood
          Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms
          Neuropsychology
          Cognition Disorders
          Task Performance and Analysis
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          Emotions
          Cognition
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          Child: 6-12 years
      ab: Emotional Lability (EL) is a source of impairment in multiple mental disorders of children, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It has been proposed that the overlap between EL and ADHD symptoms is the result of common neuropsychological deficits. The aim of the present study was to test this hypothesis by using a multi-method approach. In a mixed sample of 61 children (49 community sample and 12 children with an ADHD diagnosis) aged between 8 and 12 years, we examined the relationship between parental reports of ADHD and EL, real-time children's emotional expressions in an experimental context, children's performance on neuropsychological tasks and parental ratings of neuropsychological functioning. Parental EL ratings were significantly predicted by task-based reaction time variability and by questionnaire measures of Self-Direction & Organization and Arousal Regulation. Parental EL ratings were also significantly related to both ADHD symptom dimensions. After controlling for shared neuropsychological factors, ADHD symptoms no longer predicted parental EL ratings. Neuropsychological task performance was not significantly related to real time emotional expressions. However, positive emotional expressions were significantly predicted by higher parental ratings of Cognition and negative emotional expressions by parental ratings of low Effort engagement – accounting for some of the correlation with ADHD symptoms. The current results highlight the plausible role of cognitive energetic processes in explaining the EL and ADHD symptom association.
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