Investigating the Relationship between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Based on Conners Scale) and Myers Briggs Personality Types

Fateme Nevisi zade¹ Farnaz Ghassemi² Zahra Tabanfar³

1) M.Sc. Student, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
2) Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
3) Ph.D Student, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

IOI Code : XEBA-GFCKG
Publication : Second National Conference on Futurism in Psychology and Educational Sciences(femconf.ir)
Abstract :
    Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a behavioral and developmental disorder in which the person experiences problems such as anxiety, permanent fatigue, forgetfulness, depression and focus problems. Given the negative impact of this disorder on the personality and social functioning of affected individuals, predicting the likelihood of this disorder can be a useful step towards its timely diagnosis and treatment by appropriate psychological methods. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Myers-Briggs personality types in Amirkabir University of Technology students. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and personality type of the participants are assessed using Conners questionnaire and Myers-Briggs personality Type Indicator, respectively. 201 students (mean age 24.54 ± 4.41 years) from this university participated in this research. After grading the questionnaires, the T scores were divided into 4 groups of inattention (A), inactivity (B), attention-deficit hyperactivity (C) and ADHD index (D). Then, the normality of the distribution of samples in each group was evaluated and one of the parametric or nonparametric tests was selected to investigate the significant differences in the groups. Finally, the odds ratio and the risk ratio of ADHD in the different personality groups were evaluated using contingency table. The results of this study indicated that there is a significant difference between the probability of this disorder and introverted-extroverted and perceptual-judgmental personality types. People with ADHD type A are mostly introverted and perceptual, type B extroverted and perceptual, type C perceptual and type D introverted and perceptual.

Keywords : attention deficit hyperactivity disorder myers briggs personality types indicator conners questionnaire statistical tests contingency table