Volume : III, Issue : II, February - 2013

Behavioral Inhibition and Cognitive Emotion Regulation in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Neethi Nv, Johnson Alex

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a developmental impairment of complex range of executive functions among which cognitive emotion regulation and behavioral inhibition plays a significant role in regulating their behaviors. The ADHD children (N=20) selected as study group and age, education matched Normal group (N=20) were selected to the control group. Cognitive emotion regulation and Behavioral inhibition was measured. The ADHD group performed poorly than the control group on the tests of behavioral inhibition. No significant differences were found between the groups on cognitive emotion regulation. However, ADHD group scored high on less adaptive coping strategies such as increased rumination, catastrophisation, and other blame. The cognitive emotion regulation ability of the child facilitated by behavior inhibition and executive function abilities of the child, which regulate and moderate their coping strategies as adaptive or less adaptive.

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Neethi NV,Johnson Alex Behavioral Inhibition and Cognitive Emotion Regulation in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.II February 2013

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