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  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT) share overlapping symptoms, raising questions about their construct validity.
  • Current diagnostic models may not fully capture the complex relationship between activity levels and inattention.

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  • To reexamine the latent structure of ADHD and SCT.
  • To investigate viewing hyperactivity and hypoactivity as a single activity level continuum.
  • To determine if inattention is a separate dimension from activity level.

Main Methods:

  • Collected data from 1,398 adults via Amazon's MTurk.
  • Developed and validated a new scale for measuring activity level.
  • Employed curvilinear regression to analyze the relationship between activity level and inattention scores.

Main Results:

  • The Activity Level scale demonstrated good internal consistency, normality, and unimodality.
  • Curvilinear regression revealed a significant quadratic relationship between activity level and inattention, explaining a portion of the variance.
  • This suggests linear analyses may be insufficient for studying ADHD.

Conclusions:

  • Hyperactivity and hypoactivity might represent a single continuum of activity level.
  • Inattention may exhibit a U-shaped relationship with an individual's activity level.
  • Revising the construct of ADHD to include a continuum of activity and a separate dimension for inattention is warranted.