Tracking Distraction

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 475-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Franklin ◽  
Michael D. Mrazek ◽  
Craig L. Anderson ◽  
Charlotte Johnston ◽  
Jonathan Smallwood ◽  
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Objective: Although earlier work has shown a link between mind-wandering and ADHD symptoms, this relationship has not been further investigated by taking into account recent advances in mind-wandering research. Method: The present study provides a comprehensive assessment of the relationship between mind-wandering and ADHD symptomatology in an adult community sample ( N = 105, 71 females, M age = 23.1) using laboratory measures and experience sampling during daily life. Results: Mind-wandering and detrimental mind-wandering were positively associated with ADHD symptoms. Meta-awareness of mind-wandering mediated the relationship between ADHD symptomatology and detrimental mind-wandering, suggesting that some of the negative consequences can be ameliorated by strategies that facilitate meta-awareness. Interestingly, participants with low ADHD scores showed a positive relationship between detrimental mind-wandering and useful mind-wandering; however, participants with high ADHD scores failed to engage in this type of “strategic” mind-wandering. Conclusion: These results provide new insights into the relationship between ADHD symptomatology and mind-wandering that could have important clinical implications.

Author(s):  
Imam Mujtaba ◽  
Yufiarti Yufiarti ◽  
Elindra Yetti

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between students’ personality and environment with their Indonesian Language ability. This research was conducted in South Tangerang City involving 392 2nd grade students. This research method used correlational method with quantitative approach by using descriptive statistics. Data was collected using an assessment scale instrument and analyzed by using correlation technique (regression). The results of this study showed that: (1) There was a positive relationship between personality and students’ Indonesian Language ability with a significant level of α = 0.05, obtained tcal 8.77 ˃ ttable 1.97. (2) There wasa positive relationship between the environment and the students’ Indonesian Language ability with a significant level of α = 0.05, which obtained 9.03 ˃ t table 1.97. (3) There was a positive relationship between personality and environment with the students’ Indonesian Language ability; with a significant level of α = 0.05, obtained tcal 7.92 ˃ t table 1.97. The Implications of the study identified that Indonesian Language ability of the students can be influenced by their personality and environment.


2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 622-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria L. Brescoll

Although past research has noted the importance of both power and gender for understanding volubility—the total amount of time spent talking—in organizations, to date, identifying the unique contributions of power and gender to volubility has been somewhat elusive. Using both naturalistic data sets and experiments, the present studies indicate that while power has a strong, positive effect on volubility for men, no such effect exists for women. Study 1 uses archival data to examine the relationship between the relative power of United States senators and their talking behavior on the Senate floor. Results indicate a strong positive relationship between power and volubility for male senators, but a non-significant relationship for female senators. Study 2 replicates this effect in an experimental setting by priming the concept of power and shows that though men primed with power talk more, women show no effect of power on volubility. Mediation analyses indicate that this difference is explained by women’s concern that being highly voluble will result in negative consequences (i.e., backlash). Study 3 shows that powerful women are in fact correct in assuming that they will incur backlash as a result of talking more than others—an effect that is observed among both male and female perceivers. Implications for the literatures on volubility, power, and previous studies of backlash are discussed.


2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 1020-1029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara E. McKee

Objective: This study investigated the relationships between ADHD symptomatology and friendship formation, social skills, and the quality of specific friendships in college students. Method: A total of 156 students, 75 of whom had high self-reported ADHD symptomatology, participated. Friends of 68 participants completed measures of friendship quality. Results: Students had more positive first impressions of and reported being friends with others whose ADHD symptom severity matched their own. Participants with high ADHD symptoms reported greater difficulty providing emotional support and managing interpersonal conflict than their low-symptom peers. Greater ADHD symptoms in participants and friends were related to reduced quality of specific relationships, but similarity of severity of symptomatology in the dyad benefited the relationship. Conclusion: These findings have implications for the kind of support offered to students with high ADHD symptomatology when they transition to college. Future longitudinal research examining relationships of varying levels of closeness should be conducted.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Syahrani Paramitha Kurnia Illahi ◽  
Sari Zakiah Akmal

<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Issues related to emotions and low emotional intelligence, such as lack of emotions, and unstable and excessive negative emotions happened in many adolescents living in orphanages. One factor that may influence emotional intelligence is the non-family environment such as peer-attachment. This research aimed to explore the relationship between peer-attachment and emotional intelligence in adolescents living in orphanages. This research used quantitative research method, with questionnaires as measuring scales. Participants in this research were 104 adolescents living in orphanages in DKI Jakarta with the age range of 12-18 years old and collected using incidental sampling. Spearman’s results showed that value r = 0,221 (ρ = 0,024 &lt; 0,05) and could be interpreted as a significantly positive relationship existing between peer-attachment and emotional intelligence in adolescents living in orphanages.</p><p><strong>Abstrak: </strong>Masalah yang berkaitan dengan emosi dan kecerdasan emosi yang rendah seperti keadaan haus emosi serta emosi negatif yang tidak seimbang dan berlebihan banyak dijumpai pada remaja yang tinggal di panti asuhan. Salah satu faktor yang dapat mempengaruhi kecerdasan emosi adalah faktor lingkungan non-keluarga seperti kelekatan dengan teman sebaya.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara kelekatan dengan teman sebaya dan kecerdasan emosi pada remaja yang tinggal di panti asuhan. Penelitian dijalankan  menggunakan penelitian kuantitatif dengan kuesioner sebagai alat ukur. Subjek penelitian berjumlah 104 remaja yang tinggal di panti asuhan wilayah DKI Jakarta dengan rentang usia 12-18 tahun diperoleh dengan menggunakan teknik <em>incidental sampling. </em>Penelitian ini menggunakan uji korelasi <em>Spearman</em> dengan r = 0,221 (ρ = 0,024; ρ &lt; 0,05). Hasil ini menunjukkan bahwa terdapat hubungan positif yang signifikan antara kelekatan dengan teman sebaya dengan kecerdasan emosi pada remaja yang tinggal di panti asuhan.<br /><strong></strong></p>


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mandias Reagen ◽  
Mandias Reagen

Background; Some researchers have proven that there was a relationship between eatingmeatanduricacidlevels.Therehavebeennospecificstudiesontherelationship between eating wild animal products and uric acid levels. LangowanMinahasa is one of the tribes in Indonesia whose people love to eat wild animal meat from hunting. Objectives; The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between consumption of wild animal meat and uric acid levels in the LangowanMinahasa community. Methods; The research method used wascross sectional with 35 respondents selected using purposive sampling. Results; 42.9% of respondents eat wild animal meat more than three times a week and the mean of uric acid was 6.78mg/dL (SD = 1.27). There was a positive relationshipbetween consumption of wild animal meat with uric acid levels in the MinahasaLangowan community (r = 0.562), (p = 0.000). Conclusions; consumption of wild animal meat with uric acid levels have a positive relationship. This study recommend that the LangowanMinahasa people should reduce or even stop consuming wild animal meat and switch to consuming other protein sources. The researcher also recommended to village officials and the government to provide information to the community on the negative impact of consuming meat from hunted products, both on health and natural ecosystems.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
E. Martin ◽  
C. T. Dourish ◽  
R. Hook ◽  
S. R. Chamberlain ◽  
S. Higgs

Abstract Background Symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and trait impulsivity have been associated with disordered eating but are seldom assessed in community studies, or longitudinally and little is known about the mediating mechanisms. Methods We tested associations between ADHD symptoms and disordered eating cross-sectionally and between trait impulsivity and disordered eating longitudinally. We utilised data from a normative cohort of young adults (642 participants: 65% female, Mage = 23 years). Participants were classified as high risk or low risk for disordered eating using the SCOFF instrument. In the first two steps of both cross-sectional and longitudinal hierarchical logistic regression models, demographics and covariates were entered. For the cross-sectional regression, Adult ADHD self-report scale (ASRS) scores, separated into inattentive and hyperactive/impulsive symptoms, were entered in the third step. In a separate longitudinal model, Barratt impulsivity scale subscales (attentional, motor and non-planning impulsivity) were entered in the third step. Depression, as assessed by the moods and feelings questionnaire (MFQ), was examined as a mediator. Results Cross-sectionally, sex, MFQ score and inattentive symptoms predicted disordered eating risk (model R2 = 20%). Longitudinally, sex, MFQ score and attentional impulsivity predicted disordered eating risk (model R2 = 16%). The relationship between inattentive symptoms and the disordered eating risk was partially mediated by MFQ score, whereas the relationship between attentional impulsivity and the disordered eating risk was fully mediated by MFQ scores. Conclusions These data highlight (1) a specific role for inattentive symptoms of ADHD and (2) the importance of both depression and impulsivity in predicting eating disorder risk.


Author(s):  
Musram Abadi ◽  
La Ode Nafiu ◽  
Achmad Slamet Aku ◽  
Rusli Badaruddin

The study aims to determine the relationship between age and the relationship between body weight and the selling price of cattle. This research was conducted in the District of Ranomeeto Konawe Selatan District, Southeast Sulawesi Province. The material used was 72 male Bali cattle. The parameters observed were selling price, age, and body weight using the Winter formula which uses chest circumference, body length, and shoulder height as estimators and using a digital scale. The research method used in the study is a survey method with the Pearson correlation analysis model. Based on the discussion and the results of the analysis show that there is a very strong and positive relationship between age and body weight with the selling price of male Bali cattle in Ranomeeto District, Konawe Selatan Regency, namely between body weight and selling price has the highest coefficient value. Consequently, the coefficient value between age and selling price is 0.886 while between body weight and selling price the coefficient value is 0.952.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandy L. Callahan ◽  
André Plamondon ◽  
Sascha Gill ◽  
Zahinoor Ismail

AbstractSymptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in childhood have been found to be predictive of compromised cognitive function, and possibly even dementia, in later adulthood. This study aimed to test vascular risk as a hypothesized moderator or mediator of this association, because individuals with elevated ADHD symptoms frequently have comorbid vascular disease or risk factors which are recognized to contribute to later-life cognitive decline. Data from 1,092 adults aged 18–85 were drawn from the Enhanced Nathan Kline Institute Rockland Sample. Childhood ADHD symptoms (assessed using the Adult ADHD Clinical Diagnostic Scale) were assessed as predictors of cognitive functioning in adulthood (assessed using subtests from the University of Pennsylvania Computerized Neurocognitive Battery, the Delis-Kaplan Executive Functioning System, and the Wechsler Memory Scale). Vascular risk factors (including diabetes, tobacco use, obesity, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia) were tested as both a moderator and mediator of this relationship. Childhood ADHD symptoms and vascular risk factors were both independently associated with later-life cognition, but vascular risk was not a significant moderator or mediator of relationships between ADHD symptoms and cognition in statistical models. Results from this large community sample suggest that the relationship between ADHD symptoms and cognition is not accounted for by vascular risk. This question should also be investigated in clinical samples.


Webology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (Special Issue 04) ◽  
pp. 278-287
Author(s):  
Adams Bello ◽  
Shadrach Omofowa ◽  
Chijioke Nwachukwu ◽  
Anh Viet Ho Nguyen

The relationship between organizational politics and organizational commitment is examined in this study examines A survey research method was adopted. 245 staff were randomly selected for the study. Regression analysis was employed for testing the hypotheses formulated. The results indicate that “Go along to get ahead” has a positive relationship with organizational commitment. Pay and promotion policies influence organizational commitment and General political behavior” positively influence organizational commitment. The study concludes that firms should pay attention to organizational politics because it promotes commitment among workers.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-145
Author(s):  
Sumi Lestari

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between self confidence with adversity quotient of post-drop out students at Universitas Trunojoyo Madura. The hypothesis is that there is a relationship between self confidence and adversity quotient in post-drop out students at Universitas Trunojoyo Madura. The research method is a quantitative approach. The number of participants was 130 people with a purposive sampling technique. The scale used is a scale of self confidence and adversity quotient. Data analysis using the Spearman Rank and analyzed using the SPSS 23.0 program. The results show the correlation is 0.844 (significance level 0.000 0.05) which means the level of relationship between variables is very strong. It illustrates that there is a positive relationship between self confidence and adversity quotient in post-drop out students at Universitas Trunojoyo Madura. In other words, the hypothesis is accepted. ABSTRAK Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu menguji hubungan self confidence dengan adversity quotient mahasiswa pasca drop out di Universitas Trunojoyo Madura. Adapun hipotesisnya adalah ada hubungan antara self confidence dengan adversity quotient pada mahasiswa pasca drop out di Universitas Trunojoyo Madura. Metode penelitiannya adalah dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Jumlah partisipannya sejumlah 130 orang dengan teknik purposive sampling. Skala yang digunakan adalah skala self confidence dan adversity quotient. Analisis data memakai Spearman Rank serta dianalisis menggunakan program SPSS 23.0. Hasil menunjukkan korelasinya adalah sebesar 0,844 (taraf signifikansi 0.000 0,05) yang artinya tingkat hubungan antar variabel adalah sangat kuat. Hal itu menggambarkan ada hubungan positif antara self confidence dengan adversity quotient pada mahasiswa pasca drop out di Universitas Trunojoyo Madura. Dengan kata lain, hipotesis diterima.


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