title: Overestimation of Physical Abilities Among Boys With and Without ADHD.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Children with ADHD have been widely reported to overestimate their abilities in social and academic domains, but a similar overestimation of physical abilities has not been examined.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-four elementary school-age boys with ADHD and fifteen boys without ADHD were compared on their ability to accurately estimate their ability to complete four lab-based physical tasks, varying on three levels of difficulty: (a) within their ability, (b) 8% beyond their ability, and (c) 13% beyond their ability.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Children with ADHD were significantly more likely than controls to overestimate their physical ability at difficult levels of the task.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Implications of these results for preventing risky behaviors in children with ADHD are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA shelseth@fiu.edu.
authors.forename: Sarah A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Helseth
authors.affiliation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
authors.forename: Beth S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Bruce
authors.affiliation: Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Waschbusch
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012649:Self Concept; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012919:Social Behavior
keywords: ADHD; children; physical ability; positive illusory bias