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Psychology

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Doctoral Dissertations

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2018

Executive functioning

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Executive Functioning Abilities And Social Competence In Undergraduates, Megan Carl Aug 2018

Executive Functioning Abilities And Social Competence In Undergraduates, Megan Carl

Doctoral Dissertations

Despite separate literatures linking attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and executive functions to social competence, no study has examined the simultaneous relationship of these two processes in adults. Beauchamp and Anderson (2010) propose the Socio-Cognitive Integration of Abilities (SOCIAL) model a biopsychosocial model as an explanation for the development of social competence. Given the patterns of social and neurological development in ADHD, it may be consistent with the SOCIAL model. Subcomponents of Beauchamp and Anderson’s (2010) SOCIAL model were utilized to examine the extent to which attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptom severity moderated the relationship between executive function (EF) and social competence …