Functional Asthma Severity and Impulsive Behaviour in 6 and 7 Year-old Children

dc.contributor.authorSchuckard, Eeuwe
dc.date.accessioned2008-10-19T21:14:33Z
dc.date.available2008-10-19T21:14:33Z
dc.date.issued2007en
dc.description.abstractThere is evidence that children with asthma exhibit more externalizing behaviour problems than other children. Impulsive behaviours can mark the onset and severity of externalizing behaviour problems. The present paper reports an exploratory examination of relationships between functional asthma severity and impulsivity in 6 and 7 year old children with asthma (N = 16). Participants with varying functional asthma severity were recruited at age 5 from a larger community study (the Children’s Learning Study). Parents completed items from three subscales of the Connors’ Parent Rating Scale-Revised (CPRS-R), the Hyperactive-Impulsive, Conners’ Global Index: Restless-Impulsive and the DSM-IV Hyperactive-Impulsive subscales. Children completed the Two Choice Paradigm (TCP), a computer program measuring delay aversion type impulsive behaviours. Mean (SD) CPRS-R Hyperactive-Impulsive, Conners’ Global Index: Restless-Impulsive and DSM-IV Hyperactive-Impulsive subscale scores were 59 (11), 56 (10) and 59 (10) respectively. There was no correlation between functional asthma severity and delay aversion or CPRS-R subscale scores and there was no evidence of a trend for such a relationship. Preliminary investigations conducted with a small sample of 6-7 year-old children with asthma thus suggest that functional asthma severity is not related to impulsivity.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/1705
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26021/10065
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. College of Educationen
dc.relation.isreferencedbyNZCUen
dc.rightsCopyright Eeuwe Schuckarden
dc.rights.urihttps://canterbury.libguides.com/rights/thesesen
dc.subjectAsthmaen
dc.subjectImpulsivityen
dc.subjectChildrenen
dc.titleFunctional Asthma Severity and Impulsive Behaviour in 6 and 7 Year-old Childrenen
dc.typeTheses / Dissertations
thesis.degree.disciplineEducation
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Canterburyen
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Educationen
uc.bibnumber1111349
uc.collegeFaculty of Educationen
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