Psychostimulant medication and perceived intensity in hyperactive children. Academic Article

abstract

• Adult ratings of children's activity, based on impressionistic scales, are good indicators of psychostimulant medication effects. These ratings seldom correlate with objective indicators, however, and their behavioral referents are poorly understood. Two separate studies tested the hypothesis that intensity of child behavior, as perceived by others, would differentiate medicated and unmedicated states. College student subjects assessed randomized videotaped segments of children's behaviors. The perceived intensity of hyperactive children's responses decreased with medication. while there were no medication-related changes in either gross motor locomotion of off-task behaviors. In a test for observer sensitization or expectancy, the results for subjects who were looking for medication effects did not differ from those for uninformed subjects.

authors

• Varni, James

published proceedings

• J Abnorm Child Psychol

author list (cited authors)

• Henker, B., Astor-Dubin, L., & Varni, J. W.

citation count

• 8

publication date

• March 1986

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

keywords

• Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity
• Behavior
• Central Nervous System Stimulants
• Child
• Dextroamphetamine
• Humans
• Male
• Methamphetamine
• Stimulation, Chemical

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/BF00917226

start page

• 105

end page

• 114

volume

• 14

issue

• 1

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1007%2Fbf00917226

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being