Residual Effects after feigning adult ADHD symptoms based on external incentives and the impact of confrontational feedback styles

Ermert, Franziska (2022) Residual Effects after feigning adult ADHD symptoms based on external incentives and the impact of confrontational feedback styles. Master thesis, Psychology.

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Abstract

While Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting aspects of daily living, a considerable amount of university students feign ADHD symptoms in the setting of evaluation to profit from compensation. There are possible consequences that can occur after feigning symptoms, which is the persistence of perception of feigned symptoms afterwards, called the residual effect. Residual Effects were researched on more general symptoms but not on ADHD as a disorder yet. Therefore, this study examines the residual effects occurring after feigning adult ADHD. A simulation design with random allocation of university students to an honest-honest (control) group (N=42) and feign-honest (experimental) group (N=48) was conducted over three assessments on two subscales of the Conners-Adult ADHD Rating-Scale (CAARS). Furthermore, the impact of corrective feedback on the residual effect was examined. Therefore, validating, invalidating, and neutral feedback was given to the participants between the first and second assessment. In this study, no statistically significant residual effect was found after feigning adult ADHD, nor was there a statistically significant difference between the different corrective feedbacks. Therefore, it is to conclude that this study design did not result in residual effects, and further investigation on residual effects after feigning ADHD symptoms in university students is needed. Keywords: adult Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, adult ADHD, residual effect, corrective feedback

Item Type:	Thesis (Master)
Supervisor name:	Fuermaier, A.B.M.
Degree programme:	Psychology
Differentiation route:	Clinical Neuropsychology (CN) [Master Psychology]
Date Deposited:	11 Jul 2022 14:44
Last Modified:	11 Jul 2022 14:44
URI:	http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/872

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