A Longitudinal Study on Developmental Trajectories of Emotion Recognition for School-Aged Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

• In Event: Contemporary Issues in Developmental Psychology

Abstract

Children with ADHD have an overall emotion-processing deficit. Growing up in inner-city communities, children face greater rates for exhibiting behavioral and mental health issues. Those findings have been demonstrated by most empirical research, while few studies have examined long-term growth trajectories of emotion recognition for children with ADHD. This longitudinal study aimed to examine how the growth trajectory change in emotion recognition of inner-city children with ADHD symptoms over a five-year period. Through using the LGCM approach, longitudinal data were analyzed to examine inter- and intraindividual differences. Importantly, results illustrated a non-constant growth trajectory in emotion recognition over five years. Interindividual differences regarding inattention issues were only detected in the first grade among inner-city children with ADHD.

Authors

• Lin Ma, Augusta University

• Menglong Cong, University of Denver

• Bingxin Qi, University of Denver