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  • Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) significantly impacts well-being and quality of life.
  • Emotional dysregulation is a key characteristic of adult ADHD, alongside cognitive and behavioral symptoms.

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  • To investigate habitual worry, cognitive control, and heart rate variability (HRV) in adults with ADHD.
  • To explore the relationship between these factors and ADHD symptom severity.

Main Methods:

  • Selected high and low ADHD symptom groups (n=51 each) from 1020 participants using the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale.
  • Recorded HRV during a breathing focus task, including phases before and after an instructed worry period.
  • Assessed cognitive control via concentration on breathing and measured habitual worry, affect, and distress.

Main Results:

  • High ADHD symptom group reported greater habitual worry, negative affect, and less positive affect.
  • Individuals with high ADHD symptoms showed poorer breathing focus, more thought intrusions, and greater distress during worry.
  • No group differences in HRV were found, but HRV correlated positively with focus ability and negatively with thought intrusions and distress.

Conclusions:

  • Impaired cognitive control may underlie exaggerated worry and negative emotional states in adult ADHD.
  • HRV is implicated in emotional regulation and inhibiting intrusive thoughts, potentially via prefrontal cortex function and vagal control.
  • The lack of direct HRV-ADHD symptom association aligns with prior research, suggesting indirect links through cognitive and emotional regulation mechanisms.