The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of cognitive-behavioral intervention for self-control on the improvements of self-control ability and task performance in children with ADHD.
The hypotheses assumed in this study were as follows:
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of cognitive-behavioral intervention for self-control on the improvements of self-control ability and task performance in children with ADHD.
The hypotheses assumed in this study were as follows:
First, the experimental group with cognitive-behavioral intervention for self-control will be improved self-control ability in the posttest and follow-up test greater than control group.
Second, the experimental group will be improved a rate of cognitive modal task performance in the posttest and follow-up test greater than control group.
Third, the experimental group will be decreased the frequency of errors of cognitive modal task performance in the posttest and follow-up test greater than control group.
Fourth, the experimental group will be improved the academic achievement in the posttest and follow-up test greater than control group.
Subjects in this study were selected 20 children with ADHD, who were third grade of an elementary school and the average age of 9 years 2months.
Experimental group received 12 sessions of cognitive-behavioral self-control intervention for 4 weeks. Each intervention sessions took 40 minutes. Control group participated in regular play activities.
Experimental design of the study was pretest-posttest-follow-up test of group(experimental vs. control). Statistical analysis was performed by the technique of ANOVA, t-test, and Wilcoxon matched-pair signed-ranks test in SPSS/PC+8.0.
The dependent variables were self-control, MFFT latency, MFFT error and academic achievement.
The following conclusions were drawn from results of this study.
First, the cognitive-behavioral intervention for self-control in children with ADHD improves significantly their self-control ability and maintained the improvement 2 weeks later.
Second, the cognitive-behavioral intervention for self-control in children with ADHD improves significantly their MFFTlatency, MFFTerror and maintained the improvement 2 weeks later. the cognitive-behavioral intervention for self-control in children with ADHD does not improves significantly their academic achievement in short and long term, but improves slightly better than children with no intervention.