The Wender Utah Rating Scale: Adult ADHD Diagnostic Tool or Personality Index?

Autor/inn/en	Hill, B.D.; Pella, Russell D.; Singh, Ashvind N.; Jones, Glenn N.; Gouvier, Wm. Drew
Titel	The Wender Utah Rating Scale: Adult ADHD Diagnostic Tool or Personality Index?
Quelle	In: Journal of Attention Disorders, 13 (2009) 1, S.87-94 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1087-0547
DOI	10.1177/1087054708320384
Schlagwörter	Rating Scales; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Personality Traits; Adults; Correlation; Diagnostic Tests; Personality Measures; Measures (Individuals); Continuous Performance Test; Personality Assessment Inventory; Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rating-Skala; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Korrelation; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Messdaten
Abstract	Objective: The Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS) is used to retroactively assess ADHD symptoms. This study sought to determine whether the WURS actually functions as an index of dysfunctional personality traits. Method: Five hundred twenty-two adult participants completed the WURS and at least one of the following measures: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale--III (WAIS-III), Trails Making Test (Forms A and B), Conners' Continuous Performance Test, d2 Test of Attention, and the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI). Results: The WURS correlated significantly with all PAI clinical and treatment scales; however, of the neuropsychological measures, only the CPT significantly correlated with the WURS score. Multiple regression analyses revealed a significant model that included clinical and treatment scales from the PAI as well as working memory and processing speed indexes from the WAIS-III that accounted for 39% of the variance in WURS scores. Conclusion: Performance on the WURS was more related to dysfunctional personality traits than to actual attentional performance in this young adult sample. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10