MONDAY, Mar 28 (HealthDay News) -- Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) achieve more real-world imaginative success and have not similar imaginative styles compared to non-ADHD individuals, according to a investigate published in the April situation of Personality and Individual Differences .
Holly A. White, Ph.D., of the University of Memphis, and Priti Shah, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, investigated real-world imaginative success and laboratory measures of imaginative considering amid 30 adults with ADHD and 30 controls. The participants were tested using the Conners' adult ADHD rating scale, the Creative Achievement Questionnaire, the FourSight Thinking Profile, and the Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults (ATTA).
The researchers found that adults with ADHD had aloft levels of real-world imaginative achievement, displayed aloft levels of initial imaginative considering on the written charge of the ATTA, and displayed softened real-world imaginative success compared to the without ADHD. In the FourSight Thinking Profile more aged of imaginative styles, the with ADHD showed an desire toward thought generation; whereas, the without ADHD were stronger in complaint elaboration and thought development.
"A better bargain of imaginative success and prospective in ADHD people has critical implications. It might be possible, for example, to pick out careers that are quite matched to the strengths and weaknesses of people with ADHD," the authors write.
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