TY - JOUR
T1 - The Relations Between Temperament, Character, and Executive Functions in Children With ADHD and Clinical Controls
AU - Drechsler, Renate
AU - Zulauf Logoz, Marina
AU - Walitza, Susanne
AU - Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph
N1 - © 2015 SAGE Publications.
PY - 2018/6
Y1 - 2018/6
N2 - OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the overlap between executive functions and temperament as measured by two questionnaires and to examine characteristic profiles in children with ADHD and clinical controls.METHOD: Parents of 111 clinically referred children, half of whom were diagnosed with ADHD and half with other or no diagnoses, completed the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) and the Cloninger Junior Temperament and Character Inventory (JTCI).RESULTS: Factor analysis of both instruments resulted in three common factors representing aspects of (1) cognitive regulation, (2) behavioral regulation, and (3) anxious/rigid tendencies. Factor (4) represented strengths and positive resources and loaded on JTCI scales only. Both instruments discriminated significantly between ADHD and non-ADHD children. Conduct disorder/oppositional defiant disorder (CD/ODD) but not ADHD accounted for problems in BRIEF Emotional Control and Self-Monitor and JTCI low Cooperativeness.CONCLUSION: The two instruments only partially overlap and may complement each other.
AB - OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the overlap between executive functions and temperament as measured by two questionnaires and to examine characteristic profiles in children with ADHD and clinical controls.METHOD: Parents of 111 clinically referred children, half of whom were diagnosed with ADHD and half with other or no diagnoses, completed the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) and the Cloninger Junior Temperament and Character Inventory (JTCI).RESULTS: Factor analysis of both instruments resulted in three common factors representing aspects of (1) cognitive regulation, (2) behavioral regulation, and (3) anxious/rigid tendencies. Factor (4) represented strengths and positive resources and loaded on JTCI scales only. Both instruments discriminated significantly between ADHD and non-ADHD children. Conduct disorder/oppositional defiant disorder (CD/ODD) but not ADHD accounted for problems in BRIEF Emotional Control and Self-Monitor and JTCI low Cooperativeness.CONCLUSION: The two instruments only partially overlap and may complement each other.
KW - ADHD
KW - BRIEF
KW - Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Inventory
KW - executive function
KW - temperament
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U2 - 10.1177/1087054715583356
DO - 10.1177/1087054715583356
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 25922184
SN - 1087-0547
VL - 22
SP - 764
EP - 775
JO - Journal of Attention Disorders
JF - Journal of Attention Disorders
IS - 8
ER -