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Abstract
The
aim of present study was to predict academic performance of students with ADHD based on the stress and parental approach. Method of the present study is corelational. The study population were included
all third grade students
with ADHD in school year (91-92) of Hamadan and 50 subjects among them were selected by
using available sampling as a participating in the study. For screening
and data collection, were used family-school questionnaire (Midget, 2000), parent Conner’s rating scale (Connors, 1998 ) Parental Stress Scale (Barry and Jones,
1995), the
Raven Intelligence Scale for children and self-made academic performance test. descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation and
inferential statistical such as correlation and stepwise regression analysis was used to analyze of data. The results showed that there is a positive and
significant relationship between academic performance of students with ADHD and
parent’s instrument approach but parental stress and parent’s controlling approach are
significant negative correlation with academic performance of their children.
The results showed that parental stress and parent’s controlling approach could have significantly to predict the academic performance of students with ADHD. Parental
stress was also the best predictor of their academic performance. The findings indicate that although child with ADHD could have many challenges for parents however with educating parents and get help from counselors and psychologists can improve
relations between children and parents and helped them to achieve better academic results.
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