TY - JOUR
T1 - Social impairment in girls with ADHD
T2 - Patterns, gender comparisons, and correlates
AU - Greene, Ross W.
AU - Biederman, Joseph
AU - Faraone, Stephen V.
AU - Monuteaux, Michael C.
AU - Mick, Eric
AU - Dupre, Emily P.
AU - Fine, Catherine S.
AU - Goring, Jennifer C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported, in part, by NIMH grant RO1 MH-50657-04 (J.B.).
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Objective: To investigate social impairment in girls with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), compare the social functioning of boys and girls with ADHD, and explore the association between social dysfunction and conditions comorbid with ADHD. Method: Four groups of index children were studied: 267 children (127 girls) with ADHD and 234 non-ADHD comparison children (114 girls). Groups were compared on social functioning, psychopathology, and demographic characteristics. Results: Girls with ADHD manifested significant deficits in interpersonal functioning compared with girls without ADHD and evidenced a similar degree of social impairment compared with boys with ADHD. ADHD and associated comorbid disorders were significant correlates of specific domains of social dysfunction in boys and girls with ADHD. Conclusions: Interpersonal deficits are a major correlate of ADHD, irrespective of gender, and appear to stem from the behaviors associated with ADHD as well as behaviors characteristic of conditions comorbid with ADHD. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc.
AB - Objective: To investigate social impairment in girls with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), compare the social functioning of boys and girls with ADHD, and explore the association between social dysfunction and conditions comorbid with ADHD. Method: Four groups of index children were studied: 267 children (127 girls) with ADHD and 234 non-ADHD comparison children (114 girls). Groups were compared on social functioning, psychopathology, and demographic characteristics. Results: Girls with ADHD manifested significant deficits in interpersonal functioning compared with girls without ADHD and evidenced a similar degree of social impairment compared with boys with ADHD. ADHD and associated comorbid disorders were significant correlates of specific domains of social dysfunction in boys and girls with ADHD. Conclusions: Interpersonal deficits are a major correlate of ADHD, irrespective of gender, and appear to stem from the behaviors associated with ADHD as well as behaviors characteristic of conditions comorbid with ADHD. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc.
KW - Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
KW - Psychiatric comorbidity
KW - Social impairment
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U2 - 10.1097/00004583-200106000-00016
DO - 10.1097/00004583-200106000-00016
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035018872
SN - 0890-8567
VL - 40
SP - 704
EP - 710
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
IS - 6
ER -