title: College Students With ADHD Traits and Their Language Styles.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  As an exploratory study, this article investigated the relationship between ADHD symptoms and the style of language use of undergraduate college students in Korea.
  
  
  METHODS
  For this study, participants were asked to use stream-of-consciousness writing about any topic. Then, each participant's piece of writing was analyzed by the Korean Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (KLIWC), a language analysis program.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The findings in this study demonstrated that college students with ADHD symptoms used significantly less "clauses per sentence," "morphemes per sentence," "numeral pronouns," "English," and "home," whereas they used significantly more "sentences," "adjectives," and "TV and movie" in their consciousness writing.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study indicates that college students with ADHD traits have a different language style from their non-ADHD cohorts. Further research studies should be conducted to replicate our findings and develop specific interventions accordingly.
authors.affiliation: Ajou University, Korea.
authors.forename: Kyungil
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Yongmoon Graduate School of Counseling Psychology, Korea seojlee@yongmoon.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Seongjik
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Sogang University, Korea.
authors.forename: Changhwan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D056910:Republic of Korea; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities; D014956:Writing; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: ADHD; Korean Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count; college students; language use; writing