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Self-concept of college students with ADHD: discordance between self- and parent-reports
1University of Georgia Regents' Center for Learning Disorders, Athens, GA 30602, USA. jmnelson@uga.edu
Objective:
To investigate the self-concept of college students with ADHD.
Method:
College students with ADHD and their parents completed self-report and observer-report measures of self-concept, respectively.
Results:
Results indicated that college students with ADHD did not report problems with self-concept but their parents did for them. This difference was statistically significant and large in magnitude (d = .84).
Conclusion:
Perceptions of the self-concept of college students with ADHD appear to vary by informant source. Hypotheses for the discordance between self- and parent-reports are discussed. Multi-informant assessment is recommended as a way to obtain a more complete clinical picture than reliance on self- or parent-report alone.
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