Adults’ self-efficacy beliefs and referral attitudes for boys and girls with AD/HD
Maniadaki, Katerina, Sonuga-Barke, Edmund and Kakouros, Efthymios (2006) Adults’ self-efficacy beliefs and referral attitudes for boys and girls with AD/HD. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 15, (3), 132-140. (doi:10.1007/s00787-005-0514-3).
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 1018-8827 (print) |
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| Keywords: | AD/HD, sex differences, referral, self-efficacy, educators |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Psychology > Division of Clinical Neuroscience |
| Item ID: | 48264 |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Sep 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 02:32 |
| Contributors: | Maniadaki, Katerina (Author) Sonuga-Barke, Edmund (Author) Kakouros, Efthymios (Author) |
| Date: | April 2006 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | ejb3@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/48264 |
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