Background:

Individuals with an ADHD diagnosis have increased levels of interfering thoughts, especially in the form of mind wandering. This was mostly investigated in sustained attention tasks; hence it is unclear whether the findings are only due to their difficulties in those types of tasks. Moreover, it is unclear how the amount of control invested in the task will affect those differences between control and ADHD groups.

Method:

ADHD and matched control groups performed the Stroop task under high and low conflict conditions while measuring their interfering thoughts level.

Results:

Individuals with ADHD have more interfering thoughts compared to a control group even when they are able to change their control level according to the task conflict.

Conclusion:

Interfering thoughts are an independent predictor of ADHD impairments, observed regardless of the degree of control invested in the task.

中文翻译：

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多动症和高低冲突条件下的干扰思想

背景：

被诊断患有多动症的人干扰性想法的水平有所提高，尤其是以走神的形式。这主要在持续注意力任务中进行调查；因此，尚不清楚这些发现是否仅仅是由于它们在这些类型的任务中的困难。此外，尚不清楚对任务投入的控制量将如何影响控制组和 ADHD 组之间的差异。

方法：

ADHD 和匹配的对照组在高和低冲突条件下执行 Stroop 任务，同时测量他们的干扰思想水平。

结果：

与对照组相比，患有 ADHD 的人有更多的干扰性想法，即使他们能够根据任务冲突改变他们的控制水平。

结论：

干扰性想法是 ADHD 损伤的独立预测因子，无论对任务的控制程度如何，都可以观察到。