The impact of anger on attention in high risk college student with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms.

• Main Authors: WU, PEI-HSUAN, 吳珮瑄
• Other Authors: CHANG, CHIEN-YU
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/y39s6v

碩士 === 東吳大學 === 心理學系 === 107 === Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) patients besides lack of concentration, hyperactivity, and impulsive, emotional problems are more common in clinical experience and parental complaints, especially in the case of angry emotions, which will not only make patients face difficulties in schooling, work, etc., and they may cause problems in interpersonal or life adaptation. The problems caused by angry emotions are not only seen in children, but also continue to affect the adult stage, posing a serious threat to the quality of life. This study focused on the attention and emotional problems of ADHD, and explored the impact of angry state on the attention of college students with high risk of ADHD symptoms, and compared the differences with normal college students. Using ASRS and C-CARE-SRI to screen 24 ADHD high-risk college students and 24 general college students, and ASEBA for comorbidity exclusion, through the autobiographical emotional recall task and article transcription method to trigger anger and neutral ststes, using ANT-I to measure attention. The results show that ADHD high-risk college students have a longer response time, higher response variation, and error rate. Also has a higher trend in alerting and conflict control network scores performance. And ADHD high-risk college students have a longer response time on the alerting:no tone and conflict control:incongruent situations.We concludes that ADHD high-risk college students may have poor alerting and conflict control network functions. In addition, the participants were less alert to the peripheral when they were angry, and showed a slight increase in response time, but the response error rate was reduced. There is no significant difference between the high risk ADHD and the performance pattern of college students in the anger state. This study infers that in the case of anger, there will ignore peripheral stimuli, reducing the utilization of cues, narrow the attention, but more focusing on the tasks, target-oriented behaviors due to approach motivational system. These characteristics will make people more focused on the task, pursuit of performance in the test, but it may also make people more difficult to improvise the situation. Based on this result, the study suggests that when you are angry you can do some self reminder to help yourself fece the immediate cognitive tasks, and for those who can use some effective strategies to help a mad person. In the future, we an explore the expression style of angry state in high risk ADHD college students, to gain a deeper understanding of the emotional problems of them, and to develop a more appropriate and complementary strategy for this group.