title: GUTI: a measure of urgent task involvement among adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
abstract: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been proposed to represent adaptive responding to highly urgent situations as in primitive hunting. In the present study, 31 adults with self-reported ADHD were compared with 33 normal adults on a newly developed, 10-item measure of urgent task involvement. The internal consistency of the scale was suitable, and the group with ADHD scored significantly higher than the control group, as predicted. Validation and further development of this scale is required for it to become a tool for the study of performance of highly urgent tasks.
authors.affiliation: Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Glickman
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Dodd
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis