Adults’ self-efficacy beliefs and referral attitudes for boys and girls with AD/HD.
In: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Jg. 15 (2006-04-01), Heft 3, S. 132-140
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Males with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) are referred to specialists significantly more frequently than females. The aim of this study was to examine differences in mothers’ and prospective educators’ self-efficacy beliefs and severity perceptions towards boys and girls with AD/HD and to explore the inter-relationships between those perceptions and referral judgements. One hundred and fifteen female prospective preschool educators and 118 mothers of boys and girls aged 4–6, enrolled in kindergartens in Athens completed a questionnaire that: (a) presented a vignette describing a typical boy or girl with AD/HD, and (b) was followed by two scales exploring severity perceptions and self-efficacy beliefs with reference to the child described in the vignette. Mothers’ sense of self-efficacy was higher than educators’ and both samples had higher sense of self-efficacy towards girls with AD/HD than boys. Educators rated the boys’ behaviour as significantly more severe than girls’. Finally, perceived self-efficacy predicted severity perceptions and severity perceptions predicted referral decisions. To conclude, adults’ differentiated perceptions of severity of AD/HD in boys and girls, which might be influenced by their own limited self-efficacy beliefs, especially towards males, might account for a proportion of the differences in referral ratio of boys and girls with AD/HD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Adults’ self-efficacy beliefs and referral attitudes for boys and girls with AD/HD.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Maniadaki, Katerina ; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund ; Kakouros, Efthymios |
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Zeitschrift: | European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Jg. 15 (2006-04-01), Heft 3, S. 132-140 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2006 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1018-8827 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00787-005-0514-3 |
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