Mm. Glickman et Dk. Dodd, GUTI - A MEASURE OF URGENT TASK INVOLVEMENT AMONG ADULTS WITH ATTENTION-DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER, Psychological reports, 82(2), 1998, pp. 592-594
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been proposed to r
epresent adaptive responding to highly urgent situations as in primiti
ve hunting. In the present study. 31 adults with self-reported ADHD we
re compared with 33 normal adults on a newly developed. 10-item measur
e of urgent task involvement. The internal consistency of the scale wa
s suitable, and the group with ADHD scored significantly higher than t
he control group, as predicted. Validation and further development of
this scale is required for it to become a tool for the study of perfor
mance of highly urgent tasks.