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Sluggish cognitive tempo in adults: Psychometric validation of the Adult Concentration Inventory.

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:[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 30(3) of Psychological Assessment (see record 2017-30273-001). In the article, the Table 1 item content was incorrectly ordered. The table, as well as text referencing Table 1 in the Results and Discussion, have been corrected in all versions of this article.] As interest in sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) increases, a primary limitation for the field is the lack of a unified set of symptoms for assessing SCT. No existing SCT measure includes all items identified in a recent meta-analysis as optimal for distinguishing between SCT and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) inattention. This study evaluates a new self-report measure for assessing SCT in adulthood, the Adult Concentration Inventory (ACI), which was developed in response to the meta-analytic findings for assessing SCT. Using a large, multiuniversity sample (N = 3,172), we evaluated the convergent and discriminant validity and reliability of the ACI. We also evaluated the ACI measure of SCT in relation to self-reported demographic characteristics, daily life executive functioning, socioemotional adjustment (i.e., anxiety/depression, loneliness, emotion dysregulation, self-esteem), and functional impairment. Exploratory confirmatory factor analyses resulted in 10 ACI items demonstrating strong convergent and discriminant validity from both anxiety/depressive and ADHD inattentive symptom dimensions. SCT was moderately to-strongly correlated with daily life EF deficits, poorer socioemotional adjustment, and greater global functional impairment. Moreover, SCT remained uniquely associated in structural regression analyses with most of these external criterion domains above and beyond ADHD. Finally, when internalizing symptoms were also covaried, SCT, but not ADHD inattention, remained significantly associated with poorer socioemotional adjustment. These findings support the use of the ACI in future studies examining SCT in adulthood and make a major contribution in moving the field toward a unified set of SCT items that can be used across studies. (PsycINFO Database Record

journal_name

Psychol Assess

journal_title

Psychological assessment

authors

Becker SP,Burns GL,Garner AA,Jarrett MA,Luebbe AM,Epstein JN,Willcutt EG

doi

10.1037/pas0000476

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-03-01 00:00:00

pages

296-310

issue

eissn

1040-3590

issn

1939-134X

pii

2017-15233-001

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pub_type

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Sluggish cognitive tempo in adults: Psychometric validation of the Adult Concentration Inventory.