Moderator Role of Monitoring in the Inhibitory Control of Adolescents With ADHD

Abstract

<b>Objective:</b> The aim of this research was to analyze the role of monitoring in the causal relationship between inhibitory control and symptoms of combined ADHD. <b>Method:</b> It has been conducted a quantitative investigation of two phases. <b>Results:</b> In the first study, a moderation model was analyzed (<i>N</i> = 144 adolescents with combined ADHD), where monitoring was considered as a moderating variable in the causal relationship between the inhibitory control and the symptomatology of ADHD <i>F</i>(3, 140) = 28.03, <i>p</i> < .001; <i>R</i>² = .37. In the second study, the model through an experimental study was tested (<i>N</i> = 52 adolescents with and without ADHD) where it was found that adolescents with ADHD improve in their inhibitory control when they receive external support to the monitoring <i>F</i>(1, 50) = 21.38, <i>p</i> < .001, η² = .30. <b>Conclusion:</b> Results suggest that monitoring compensates the poor performance of inhibitory control in adolescents with ADHD, which is a contribution to the theoretical construction of ADHD and to the treatments proposed for this condition because it goes beyond the classic conception of a causality chain among the deficit of inhibitory control and ADHD symptomatology to propose a new explanation about this disorder, where neuropsychology intervention of monitoring would diminish ADHD's symptomatology impact on adolescents.