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KMID : 0377520170420010007
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Chung-Ang Journal of Medicine
2017 Volume.42 No. 1 p.7 ~ p.15
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elligent Characteristics of Adult ADHD Patients: Focusing on the Subtest Item Features
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Lee Won-Ik
Huh Yoon-Seok
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of adult ADHD patients’ intelligence test and to identify and characterize adult ADHD diagnosis by using WAIS-I intelligence test. For 185 patients who had not received any medication between the ages of 18~56 who were admitted to the adult ADHD according to the DSM-IV criteria, the results of the WAIS-I intelligence test were divided into the high intelligence group (110 total intelligence, N=107) and the average intelligence group (total intelligence 110, N=78) and were analyzed. As a result, first, there was a significant difference between the mean intelligence group and the high intelligence group. In the average intelligence group, the ratio of unmarried people under 30 years old was high, but in the high intelligence group, the ratio of education ratio and occupation was significant higher than the average intelligence group. Second, as a result of comparing the difference between the ’Picture Completion’ and other intelligence subtests, The ’Picture Comlpetion’ showed a significantly lower score. Third, the difference between the score of the "Block Design" score and the score of the ’Picture Comlpetion’ score was larger in both groups, the score difference was significantly higher in the high intelligence group. Fourth, the subscale items correlated most with the ’Picture Completion’ subtest showed a difference between the high intelligence group and the average intelligence group. Both the high intelligence group and the average intelligence group performed poorly in the ’Picture Completion’, and the average intelligence group showed a moderate correlation with the ’Object Assembly’ and the ’Digit Symbol’, but this pattern does not appear in the high intelligence group. These findings confirmed that the decline of the Performance Intelligence was more consistent in the mean intelligence group. The significant decline of the ’Picture Completion’ score, which measuring the ability to grasp the essence-non-essential part of an object with visual sensitivity, visual organization ability, visual concentration, visual agility, environmental agility, visual organization, perceptual organization, distinction between essential and non-essential parts (ability to grasp the core of things), concentration, organization at automatic and representational level, ability to work under temporal pressure, and which means the ability to react when uncertain, has been confirmed that ADHD is a characteristic feature of adult ADHD, and the intelligence test will be a useful tool for diagnosing, especially diagnosing ADHD adults with high intelligence level of 110 or more.
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KEYWORD
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Adult ADHD, WAIS-I intelligence test, Picture Completion
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