Recognition of emotions and affective attitudes in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

Background/Aim. Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) show lower degree of recognition their own emotions and greater behavioral difficulties than children who do not have this disorder. This also affects the other people's that are expressed only by language content, but facial expression way they express emotional message through speech. Most research in area focuses on recognizing based expressions rather The aim study was to examine how ADHD recognize speech (joy, anger, fear, sadness) affective attitudes (threat commandment) relation typical development. Methods. included 31 29 developmental aged 6 13. To assess ability attitudes, a corpus Speech Emotional Expression Attitudes (Govorna emocionalna ekspresija i stavovi ? GEES, Serbian) used. sentences joy, sadness, threat command. Results. results obtained showed had worse development (t = 8.81; p 0.000). Joy emotion where no statistically significant difference found. In all differences were found (p < 0.01). Also, there association between age both groups, more pronounced Conclusion. provided important clues about perception ADHD. These very for conception therapeutic procedures, especially strategies modeling behavior