Table 1:
Father Responses to Coping with Children’s Negative Emotion Scale (CCNES) Subscales by ADHD Group
| Subscale | ADHD (N = 20) |
nonADHD (N = 10) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | |
| Supportive Reactions | ||||
| Expressive Encouragement | 4.69 | .84 | 5.18 | .85 |
| Emotion-Focused Reaction | 5.53 | .76 | 5.94 | .64 |
| Problem-Focused Reaction | 5.58 | .69 | 6.03 | .73 |
| Non-Supportive Reactions | ||||
| Punitive Reaction | 2.65 | .87 | 2.35 | .60 |
| Minimization Reaction | 3.55 | .88 | 3.26 | .65 |
| Distress Reaction | 2.63 | .85 | 2.48 | .72 |
Note: CCNES subscales are on a 7-point Likert scale (1 = very unlikely; 7 = very likely).
None of the ADHD group comparisons attained statistical significance at p<.05.