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Keeping Emotions in Mind: The Influence of Working Memory Capacity on Parent-Reported Symptoms of Emotional Lability in a Sample of Children With and Without ADHD
Emotional lability (EL) often co-occurs with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. However, difficulties of regulating intense emotions in ADHD are still poorly understood. We investigated the potential role of working memory (WM) as a protective factor against EL in children...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6176092/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30333774 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01846 |
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author | Jensen, Daniel André Høvik, Marie Farstad Monsen, Nadja Josefine Nyhammer Eggen, Thale Hegdahl Eichele, Heike Adolfsdottir, Steinunn Plessen, Kerstin Jessica Sørensen, Lin |
author_facet | Jensen, Daniel André Høvik, Marie Farstad Monsen, Nadja Josefine Nyhammer Eggen, Thale Hegdahl Eichele, Heike Adolfsdottir, Steinunn Plessen, Kerstin Jessica Sørensen, Lin |
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description | Emotional lability (EL) often co-occurs with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. However, difficulties of regulating intense emotions in ADHD are still poorly understood. We investigated the potential role of working memory (WM) as a protective factor against EL in children with ADHD by building on models describing the close relationship between WM and regulation of emotions. The parents of 41 children with ADHD and 34 typically developing children (TDC) filled out the emotional control scale (ECS) from the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functioning and the child behavior checklist (CBCL). The children themselves completed the backward conditions of the digit span (DS) and spatial span (SS) tasks as well as the letter–umber sequencing (LNS) task. The results of a stepwise regression analysis confirmed the negative relationship between parent reported EL measured using the ECS and scores on the LNS, when controlling for symptoms of ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). WM thus seems to be important for the ability of the children to express emotions in an adaptive and flexible way. We therefore suggest that a poorer WM capacity, which is often found in children with ADHD, may be a predictor of high levels of EL. |
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spelling | pubmed-61760922018-10-17 Keeping Emotions in Mind: The Influence of Working Memory Capacity on Parent-Reported Symptoms of Emotional Lability in a Sample of Children With and Without ADHD Jensen, Daniel André Høvik, Marie Farstad Monsen, Nadja Josefine Nyhammer Eggen, Thale Hegdahl Eichele, Heike Adolfsdottir, Steinunn Plessen, Kerstin Jessica Sørensen, Lin Front Psychol Psychology Emotional lability (EL) often co-occurs with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. However, difficulties of regulating intense emotions in ADHD are still poorly understood. We investigated the potential role of working memory (WM) as a protective factor against EL in children with ADHD by building on models describing the close relationship between WM and regulation of emotions. The parents of 41 children with ADHD and 34 typically developing children (TDC) filled out the emotional control scale (ECS) from the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functioning and the child behavior checklist (CBCL). The children themselves completed the backward conditions of the digit span (DS) and spatial span (SS) tasks as well as the letter–umber sequencing (LNS) task. The results of a stepwise regression analysis confirmed the negative relationship between parent reported EL measured using the ECS and scores on the LNS, when controlling for symptoms of ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). WM thus seems to be important for the ability of the children to express emotions in an adaptive and flexible way. We therefore suggest that a poorer WM capacity, which is often found in children with ADHD, may be a predictor of high levels of EL. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6176092/ /pubmed/30333774 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01846 Text en Copyright © 2018 Jensen, Høvik, Monsen, Eggen, Eichele, Adolfsdottir, Plessen and Sørensen. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Jensen, Daniel André Høvik, Marie Farstad Monsen, Nadja Josefine Nyhammer Eggen, Thale Hegdahl Eichele, Heike Adolfsdottir, Steinunn Plessen, Kerstin Jessica Sørensen, Lin Keeping Emotions in Mind: The Influence of Working Memory Capacity on Parent-Reported Symptoms of Emotional Lability in a Sample of Children With and Without ADHD |
title | Keeping Emotions in Mind: The Influence of Working Memory Capacity on Parent-Reported Symptoms of Emotional Lability in a Sample of Children With and Without ADHD |
title_full | Keeping Emotions in Mind: The Influence of Working Memory Capacity on Parent-Reported Symptoms of Emotional Lability in a Sample of Children With and Without ADHD |
title_fullStr | Keeping Emotions in Mind: The Influence of Working Memory Capacity on Parent-Reported Symptoms of Emotional Lability in a Sample of Children With and Without ADHD |
title_full_unstemmed | Keeping Emotions in Mind: The Influence of Working Memory Capacity on Parent-Reported Symptoms of Emotional Lability in a Sample of Children With and Without ADHD |
title_short | Keeping Emotions in Mind: The Influence of Working Memory Capacity on Parent-Reported Symptoms of Emotional Lability in a Sample of Children With and Without ADHD |
title_sort | keeping emotions in mind: the influence of working memory capacity on parent-reported symptoms of emotional lability in a sample of children with and without adhd |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6176092/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30333774 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01846 |
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