APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Associations between ADHD, Social Stress Responses, and Internalizing Symptoms in a Longitudinal Female Sample

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Clinical Science

  • Patricia Porter
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Shaikh Ahmad
    University of California, San Francisco
  • Shaikh Ahmad
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Stephen Hinshaw
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Stephen Hinshaw
    University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

Using longitudinal data on women with/without childhood ADHD, we evaluated relations between childhood ADHD symptoms, late-adolescent responses to social stressors (RSS), and adult internalizing symptoms. With stringent covariates, adolescent RSS significantly predicted adult internalizing symptoms and partially mediated the relation between childhood ADHD symptoms and adult internalizing symptoms.

Psychopathology

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