@article{ref1,
title="Does childhood positive self-perceptual bias mediate adolescent risky behavior in youth from the MTA study?",
journal="Journal of consulting and clinical psychology",
year="2013",
author="Hoza, Betsy and McQuade, Julia D. and Murray-Close, Dianna and Shoulberg, Erin and Molina, Brooke S. G. and Arnold, L. Eugene and Swanson, James M. and Hechtman, Lily",
volume="81",
number="5",
pages="846-858",
abstract="Objective: This study's primary aim was to examine whether the positive self-perceptual bias present in many youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; Hoza et al., 2004; Hoza, Pelham, Dobbs, Owens, & Pillow, 2002) mediates the relation of childhood ADHD status to later risky behaviors. Method: Using a subset of children with ADHD and comparison children (n = 645) from the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With ADHD, we predicted that a positive bias in childhood would partially or fully mediate the relation between having ADHD and risky driving and sexual behaviors 8 years later. Results: Results strongly supported this hypothesis for risky driving behavior but only provided limited support for risky sexual behavior. Conclusions: Taken together, findings suggest that future research should explore whether self-perceptual bias may be a useful target of intervention for children with ADHD. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-006X",
doi="10.1037/a0033536",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0033536"
}