Symptoms And Symptoms Of Adhd, Depression, And Anxiety

Discussion This study examined whether SCT symptoms are significantly associated with poor study skills and EF deficits in college students over and above demographics and symptoms of ADHD, depression, and anxiety. This study also examined whether deficits in EF mediate the association between symptoms of SCT and poor study skills over and above demographics and symptoms of ADHD, depression, and anxiety. The current study adds to extant research regarding SCT in a number of ways. This is the first study to examine SCT in relation to the component aspects of academic functioning, such as learning and study skills, in a college student sample. Furthermore, two recent studies have found SCT to be significantly related to college students’†¦show more content†¦Specifically, and as hypothesized, SCT symptoms were significantly associated with poorer study skills, and the associations between SCT and the affective learning strategy and goal strategy components of study skills remained significant even after controlling for symptoms of ADHD, depression, and anxiety. Of note, the association between ADHD inattention and study skills was either greatly reduced (affective strategies) or reduced to nonsignificance (goal strategies) when SCT was added to the regression models. SCT is characterized by daydreaming, mental confusion, low motivation, and slowed thinking which may possibly explain the association between SCT and poor affective learning (which includes attitudes towards school success, time management, and concentration) and goal strategies (which includes academic anxiety, use of homework and test-taking strategies, and being able to distill the most critical or important information when learning). Interestingly, SCT was much less strongly correlated with comprehension monitoring strategies (r = -.22) than with either affective learning or goal strategies (rs = -.65 and -.63, respectively), and SCT was no longer significantly associated with comprehension monitoring strategies in the initial regression analysis that controlled for demographics and other psychopathology symptoms. The comprehension monitoring strategies domain of the