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标题：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
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作者：Jensen, Daniel André ; Høvik, Marie Farstad ; Monsen, Nadja Josefine Nyhammer 等
期刊名称：Frontiers in Psychology
电子版ISSN：1664-1078
出版年度：2018
卷号：9
页码：1-9
DOI：10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01846
出版社：Frontiers Media
摘要：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 verbal WM and regulation of emotions. The parents of 41 children with ADHD and 34 typically developing children filled out the EL measure of the Emotional Control Scale (ECS) from the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functioning and the Child Behavior Checklist. The children themselves completed the backward conditions of the Digit Span (DS) and Spatial Span (SS) tasks as well as the Letter-Number Sequencing (LNS) task. The results of a regression analysis confirmed the negative relationship between parent reported EL and scores on the LNS, which remained significant also 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.
关键词：working memory; Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder; Emotional Lability; Emotion Regulation; Letter-Number Sequencing