Abstract
Objective: Children with ADHD have been widely reported to overestimate their abilities in social and academic domains, but a similar overestimation of physical abilities has not been examined. Method: Twenty-four elementary school-age boys with ADHD and fifteen boys without ADHD were compared on their ability to accurately estimate their ability to complete four lab-based physical tasks, varying on three levels of difficulty: (a) within their ability, (b) 8% beyond their ability, and (c) 13% beyond their ability. Results: Children with ADHD were significantly more likely than controls to overestimate their physical ability at difficult levels of the task. Conclusion: Implications of these results for preventing risky behaviors in children with ADHD are discussed.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 163-167 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of Attention Disorders |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 1 2016 |
Keywords
- ADHD
- children
- physical ability
- positive illusory bias
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Psychology
- Developmental and Educational Psychology