| Introduction: Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder is associated with impulsivity and
behavioral inhibition deficits, Risk taking is the important aspect of impulsive behavior.
Aim: The purpose of this study was to Comparison of risk-taking regarding behavioral inhibition
deficits in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with and without conduct disorder
(CD) and compared with control children.
Method: 37 male children with ADHD (23 ADHD only and 14 ADHD with conduct disorder
(ADHD+CD)) were selected by purposive sampling method and performed Balloon Analog Risk
Task (BART) and Go-Nogo task to measure risk taking and behavioral inhibition, and compared
with 18 normal children. The data was analyzed by ANOVA, MANOVA and MANCOVA.
Results: Data analysis demonstrated that ADHD+CD group has the highest risk taking followed
by ADHD and control group without considering of behavioral inhibition; although comparing to
control group, ADHD+CD group has meaningless difference by arranging behavioral inhibition
deficits, even though ADHD group has the same risk taking scores in compared with control
group both considering behavioral inhibition deficits.
Conclusion: This finding suggested that ADHD children have impulsivity because of behavioral
inhibition deficits, while it would not be able to predict destructive behavior and risky activities
in ADHD+CD in compared with ADHD by itself, also it could be a high risk taking pattern.
Keywords: Attention- deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct disorder, behavioral inhibition
deficits, risk taking |