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Female Graduate Students with ADHD: Resilience as a Protective Factor Against Academic Impairment

Mattingly, Colin Ian
http://orcid.org/0009-0007-8399-4950
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1702585446414632

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2024, Psy. D., Antioch University, Antioch Santa Barbara: Clinical Psychology.
Although Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) was once thought to be a disorder specific to childhood and adolescence, it is now accepted that ADHD symptomatology frequently persists into adulthood (Biederman et al., 2010). In addition to poorer social skills and more relationship problems, young adults with ADHD attain lower levels of educational and occupational achievement (Kuriyan et al., 2012). The overarching goal of this study was to understand how ADHD symptomatology impacted the academic functioning of female graduate students diagnosed with ADHD. This study also sought to understand how female graduate students with ADHD coped with the academically deleterious nature of ADHD symptoms. Additionally, this study focused on resilience; specifically, how female graduate students with ADHD experienced themselves as resilient, and how their resilience impacted the ways they coped with the academic challenges and stressors engendered by ADHD symptomatology. Data were collected using a semi-structured interview protocol. Participants’ interview transcripts were coded, analyzed, and interpreted using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Results revealed five group experiential themes [GETs] and 25 individual themes. To increase the validity of the research findings, themes identified in the researcher’s data analysis were audited by the researcher’s chairperson. In addition to finding that participants used a wide variety of coping skills to manage their ADHD symptomatology, participants’ resilience was found to protect against academic impairment and promote development and employment of coping skills and strategies. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA, https://aura.antioch.edu/ and OhioLINK ETD Center, https://etd.ohiolink.edu
Brett Kia-Keating, Ed.D. (Committee Chair)
Melissa Kennedy, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Kristine Jacquin, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
149 p.
Clinical Psychology
Academic functioning; academic impairment; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; ADHD; ADHD symptomatology; coping; coping skills; coping techniques; female graduate students; graduate students; Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis; protective factors; promotive factors; resilience

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  • Mattingly, C. I. (2024). Female Graduate Students with ADHD: Resilience as a Protective Factor Against Academic Impairment [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1702585446414632

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mattingly, Colin. Female Graduate Students with ADHD: Resilience as a Protective Factor Against Academic Impairment . 2024. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1702585446414632.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mattingly, Colin. "Female Graduate Students with ADHD: Resilience as a Protective Factor Against Academic Impairment ." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1702585446414632

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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