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QUANTITATIVE CRITERIA FOR ATTENTION AND ACTIVITY IN CHILD PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
Author(s) -
Dienske H.,
De Jonge G.,
SandersWoudstra J. A. R.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1985.tb00605.x
Subject(s) - psychology , psychiatry , developmental psychology , clinical psychology
The aim was to find empirically justified criteria for attention and activity. Patients with various disorders and controls were observed during psychiatric examinations. Measures of attention increased with age, were lower in patients than controls, were correlated with each other and related to the quality of task performance. Activity measures decreased with age, were higher in patients, were correlated among each other and concerned motility as well as talking initiatives. Criteria from other studies and the DSM‐III were critically examined. Inattention was not associated with hyperactivity, except in mentally retarded children. Inattention was common in many diagnostic categories.