Mateu Servera

University of the Balearic Islands | UIB · Department of Psychology

Parents have reported emotional regulation problems in cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The first objective of this research was to explore the differences between the parents’ ratings on CDS, ADHD, hyperactivity/impulsivity, inattention, anxiety, depression and emotional dysregulation....

Study Objectives To use a nationally representative sample to (1) evaluate the factor structure of the PROMIS parent proxy pediatric sleep scales (Spanish translation), (2) examine the invariance of these scales across sex and across different developmental periods of childhood and adolescence, (3) confirm the information and precision of the scale...

Background This study sought to determine whether cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS, formerly sluggish cognitive tempo) has different external correlates relative to ADHD‐inattentive presentation (INP), ADHD‐hyperactive/impulsive presentation (HIP), and ADHD‐combined presentation (CP). Methods Parents of a nationally representative sample of 5...

The aim was to examine, using a multi-informant approach, parent and child measures of Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome (CDS) and their relationship with internalising and externalising symptoms. 279 children (9-13 years old) and their parents completed assessments of the CDS, the inattention of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and...

Objective: The identification of a common set of symptoms for assessing cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS, formerly sluggish cognitive tempo) for early childhood (ages 5–8), middle childhood (ages 9–12), and adolescence (ages 13–16) is needed to advance research on the developmental psychopathology of CDS (i.e. a common symptom set with compara...

The main objective of this study was to analyse the relationship and differential contribution of Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome (CDS) and sleep problems in children in different psychopathological measures. A total of 1133 participants (612 fathers/mothers and 521 children aged 7–13 years in Years 3–6 of Primary Education) completed the scales o...

The main objective of this study was to compare children selected in a community setting with ADHD, high-performance, and normo-typical development on a sustained attention task. Three groups of children were selected: ADHD (n = 42), high-performance (n = 20), and nor-mo-typical development (n = 28). A brief computerized vigilance task (CSAT-R) was...

This study investigated whether oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) with the DSM-5 limited prosocial emotions (LPE) specifier marks a more severe clinical presentation than ODD alone. Mothers, fathers, and teachers of 2,142 Spanish children (49.49% girls; ages 8 to 13 years) completed measures of ODD, LPE, ADHD-hyperactivity/impulsivity (HI), ADHD-...

ADHD in Preschool: A Narrative Review. Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) is a very heterogeneous and highly prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder in children and adolescents. The detection of ADHD in the preschool stage (between 3 and 5 years of age) would allow early intervention, reducing its symptoms and modifying the course of the disorder. The...

Objective (1) Evaluate current knowledge and identify key directions in the study of sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) and (2) arrive at a consensus change in terminology for the construct that reflects the current science and may be more acceptable to researchers, clinicians, caregivers, and patients. Method Convened an international Work Group that...

The study determined consistency relative to a reference source (convergent validity for non-reference sources with a reference source) and specificity for non-reference sources in true score variance in Child and Adolescent Behavior Inventory (CABI) ADHD-inattentive (IN), ADHD-hyperactive/impulsive (HI), sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT), oppositiona...

Background: The main objective was to replicate data on the external validity of the Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT) dimension, versus ADHD Inattention (IN), with the Spanish version of the Child and Adolescent Behavior Inventory (CABI) SCT subscale [ Cuestionario sobre el Comportamiento de Niños ] (Burns et al., 2015). Method: 273 mothers and 25...

Multisource network and latent variable models were used to examine the construct validity of sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) symptoms relative to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder-inattentive (ADHD-IN) and depressive symptoms. The five objectives were to determine the (1) distinctiveness of SCT, ADHD-IN, and depressive symptom communities, (...

Bullying is a widespread and worrying phenomenon, related to many different personal, behavioral, and social variables which can modulate it and its outcomes, also in the long term. These relationships are usually studied in children and adolescents, but less often in adults who have suffered or perpetrated bullying in the past. The present work ex...

Tic disorders have a strong male predominance, with a male-to-female ratio of 4:1 in Tourette syndrome (TS) and 2:1 in persistent tic disorders. In other neurodevelopmental conditions, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the disparity in sex distribution has been partially related to differenc...

Introduction: ADHD is an early onset and high prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder. Rating scales are useful measures to assess ADHD symptoms, being the ADHD-RS-IV the most used. Although it exists a preschool version, the original version is very similar and it is more available than the preschool version in many countries. Aim: To analyze whe...

Background: Psychometric properties and initial normative information are provided for the sluggish cognitive tempo, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder-inattention, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder-hyperactivity/impulsivity, oppositional defiant disorder, callous-unemotional behavior (limited prosocial emotions specifier), anxiety, d...

Background Emotional distress in mothers inhibits the let-down reflex, thus affecting breastfeeding self-efficacy. A breastfeeding mother may have to cope with both physical discomfort and psychological distress. However, literature on initiatives to improve breastfeeding rates has focused mainly on providing community-based peer support, or social...

Variability and changes in personality constructs are frequently assessed through longitudinal data. Measurement error, which is ubiquitous in psychology, can lead to bias in the measurement of change. Therefore, personality researchers frequently use latent variable models to analyze longitudinal data. Latent variable models correct for unreliabil...

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The supplementary material was not captured to our commentary article.

Supplemental Tables for Burns et al. (2020).Application of the Bifactor S - 1 Model to Multisource Ratings of ADHD/ODD Symptoms: An appropriate bifactor model for symptom ratings. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 48, 881-894.

These materials provide the Mplus Model Code for Figure 1A, 1B, 1C, and 1D. These materials also provide the global fit indices (Table S1) and the standardized factor loadings (Table S2) from the confirmatory factor analyses for the four models. Figure 1A = Model 1A (correlated factors model) Figure 1B = Model 1B (bifactor S-1 model) Figure 1C = Mo...

Abstract Benefits of mindfulness in pregnant women.This article is intended to review the effect of mindf-ulness-based interventions on perinatal mental health. A search of the literature published until September 2019 in the Web of Science (WOS) database was carried out. Taking into account the inclusion and exclusion criteria and after reading th...

Objective Multisource longitudinal network analysis was used to determine if between-child and within-child variance of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms provided unique findings of ADHD relative to latent variable model (LVM) analyses. Method Mothers and fathers of 802 Spanish first-grade children (54% boys) provided rating...

The commentaries by Burke and Johnston (this issue), Eid (this issue), Junghänel et al. (this issue), and Willoughby (this issue) on Burns et al. (this issue) provide useful context for comparing three latent variable modeling approaches to understanding psychopathology—the correlated first-order syndrome-specific factors model, the bifactor S – 1...

Fear of darkness is highly prevalent and stable in children and often ends up becoming a specific situational phobia. The aim of this study is to analyze the feasibility of adapting and applying it through a Virtual Reality (VR) tool by nonexpert therapists. A pre-experimental study was carried out with six participants between the ages of 8 and...

Objective The objective was to determine if Spanish foster care children and Spanish non-foster children differ on sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT), ADHD-inattention (IN), ADHD-hyperactivity/impulsivity (HI), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), limited prosocial emotions (LPE), anxiety, depression, social and academic impairment measures and if the...

This article is intended to review the effect of mindfulness-based interventions on perinatal mental health. A search of the literature published until September 2019 in the Web of Science (WOS) database was carried out. Taking into account the inclusion and exclusion criteria and after reading the title and abstracts of the articles found, 26 of t...

The symmetrical bifactor model is often applied to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-hyperactive/impulsive (HI), ADHD-inattentive (IN), and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptoms, but this model frequently yields anomalous or inadmissible results. An alternative model, the bifactor S – 1 model, is more appropriate for examining...

El objetivo ha sido determinar si los niños en acogimiento familiar en familia ajena, en comparación con una muestra de niños españoles que viven con sus familias biológicas, difieren en la prevalencia de los síntomas asociados a Tempo Cognitivo Lento, Trastorno por Déficit de Atención, Trastorno por Déficit de Atención e Hiperactividad, Trastorno...

El objetivo de esta investigación ha sido determinar si los menores en Acogimiento Familiar (AF) en Familia Ajena (FA) y los que viven con sus familias de origen, presentan diferencias en la presencia de síntomas asociados a dificultades para el desarrollo. Estas son evaluadas mediante el Inventario de Conductas del Niño y el Adolescente (CABI) y c...

The objective was to determine the longitudinal associations between callous-unemotional (CU) and oppositional defiant (OD) behaviors from first to fourth grade for Spanish children. Four possible outcomes were evaluated: (1) CU behaviors in first grade predict increases in OD behaviors in the fourth grade, controlling for OD behaviors in the first...

Objective Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the neurobehavioral disorder with the largest prevalence rate in childhood. ADHD is generally assessed based on physical examination of the child and interviews, and therefore prone to subjectivity. This fact may lead to a high risk of mis- and over-diagnosis, a problem that can be addres...

Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is often used to evaluate attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptom ratings by parents and teachers. An ADHD-inattention (IN), ADHD-hyperactivity/impulsivity (HI), and ODD three-factor model is usually the best model. Acceptable CFA models, however, can hide sy...

Multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) analysis is one of the most frequently employed methods to examine the validity of psychological measures. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is a commonly used analytic tool for examining MTMM data through the specification of trait and method latent variables. Most contemporary CFA-MTMM models either do not allow est...

Latent state-trait (LST) models are commonly applied to determine the extent to which observed variables reflect trait-like versus state-like constructs. Mixture distribution LST (M-LST) models relax the assumption of population homogeneity made in traditional LST models, allowing researchers to identify subpopulations (latent classes) with differi...

This study (a) determined whether clinical elevations of sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) and attentiondeficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptom distributions in a large community sample of children would allow for identifying SCT-only, ADHD-only, and SCT + ADHD clinical groups; (b) examined co-occurrence of clinically elevated SCT and ADHD; (c)...

Background: Although attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is considered a valid diagnosis for children with intellectual disability, no studies have evaluated the invariance of ADHD symptom ratings across children with and without intellectual disability. Method: Parents completed ratings on the ADHD symptoms for 189 children with intell...

Comunicación dentro del simposio "Adaptación socio-emocional y acoso escolar en el alumnado con dificultades del lenguaje y la comunicación", para el IX Congreso Internacional de Psicología y Educación (CIPE) celebrado en la Universidad de la Rioja.

Despite increasing interest in sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) in children and advancements in its measurement, little research has examined child self-reported SCT. Child self-report of SCT is important for the multi-informant assessment of SCT. The current study used a large, school-based sample of children and a multi-informant design to examine...

In the study of the dynamic aspects of personality, longitudinal data are frequently used. Longitudinal studies allow researchers to examine interindividual differences in intraindividual changes across time, to study the consistency versus situation-specificity of personality constructs, and to test for person-situation interactions. Longitudinal...

Limited prosocial emotions (LPE, also referred to as callous-unemotional [CU] traits) are considered to reflect a more trait- than state-like construct. Our first objective was to determine the amount true score variance in CU/LPE that was consistent (trait consistency) over two occasions (12-month interval) of measurement versus specific (occasion...

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. It is one of the most commonly diagnosed neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders of childhood and therefore presents a very high prevalence rate. However the high rate of ADHD misdiagnosis makes the disc...

A recent meta-analysis identified optimal items for assessing sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) as distinct from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder inattention (ADHD-IN), and a preliminary study with teacher ratings of children in the United States found strong support for the convergent and discriminant validity of 15 SCT items. The current stu...

Introduction: Regarding the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), treatments combined with pharmacological, psychoeducational and parents training programs interventions are recommended. Parenting programs have been proven efficacy in the experimental area, but there is few data about their effectiveness and feasibility in the professio...

El Trastorno por Déficit de Atención con/sin Hiperactividad (TDAH) es uno de los problemas del neurodesarrollo más frecuentes en población infantil y suele aparecer en edades tempranas. En la etapa preescolar, los estudios de prevalencia del TDAH suelen obtener índices algo menores que los estudios que engloban a niños y adolescentes No hay consens...

El Trastorno por Déficit de Atención con Hiperactividad (TDAH) se define por un patrón persistente de hiperactividad/impulsividad y/o inatención que interfiere en el funcionamiento normal de la persona (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). No existe ningún marcador biológico que apoye el diagnóstico del TDAH pero desde un enfoque neurobiológico...

The objective was to evaluate a four-item measure of the DSM-5 Limited Prosocial Emotions (LPE) specifier (a 4-item measure of prosocial emotions). Mothers, fathers, primary teachers, and ancillary teachers completed measures of prosocial emotions (PE), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), ADHD-inattention (IN), ADHD-hyperactivity/impulsivity (HI),...

The objective was to evaluate a 4-item measure of the DSM–5 Limited Prosocial Emotions (LPE) specifier (a 4-item measure of prosocial emotions). Mothers, fathers, primary teachers, and ancillary teachers completed measures of prosocial emotions (PE), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), attentiondeficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-inattention (I...

Introduction Mothers and fathers have only moderate agreement in their ratings of children’s emotional and behavioral functioning, which in turn has implications for clinical assessment. However, we are unaware of any study that has examined mother-father agreement of children’s sleep functioning. The present study evaluated the concurrent and pros...

We provide a tutorial on how to analyze multiple-indicator multi-method (MM) longitudinal (multi-occasion, MO) data. Multiple-indicator MM-MO data presents specific challenges due to (1) different types of method effects, (2) longitudinal and cross-method measurement equivalence (ME) testing, (3) the question as to which process characterizes the l...

In the present chapter, we provide a comprehensive overview of classical approaches and recent advances in the latent variable modeling of person-situation data. We begin by reviewing the key concepts of latent state-trait (LST) theory (Steyer, Ferring & Schmitt, 1992; Steyer, Mayer, Geiser, & Cole, 2015), which is a measurement theory for measurin...

Objectives: To (1) evaluate mother-father agreement of total sleep problems and specific sleep problem domains, and (2) examine the one-year stability of children’s sleep functioning, including cross-rater stability. Methods: A community-based sample of 519 children (51% boys) in Spain were assessed in third grade and again one year later. At each...

Objective: To examine the efficacy of neurofeedback (NF), behavior therapy (BT), and pharmacology (PH) on the improvement of ADHD-related symptoms. Method: Fifty-nine children with ADHD ( M = 8.80 years, SD = 1.92 years) were randomly assigned to one of the three treatments in a pre/post assessment design. Mother- and teacher-rated ADHD scales a...

Research has yet to determine how much of the variance in sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) symptom ratings is consistent across occasions, sources, and settings versus specific to occasion, source, and setting. Our first objective was to determine the amount of variance in SCT ratings that was consistent ( trait consistency) across three occasions of...

valorarán aquellos estudios que traten de averiguar las impli-caciones a nivel neuropsicológico del SCT, especialmente en cuanto a las alteraciones en funciones ejecutivas. Algunas de las conclusiones más interesantes son que el estudio del SCT se extiende a poblaciones de distintas condiciones clínicas (principalmente pacientes con sintomatología...

Resumen El presente artículo es una respuesta a los artículos-comen-tario realizados al trabajo de Bernad & Servera (2016). Se resu-men las principales aportaciones de los artículos-comentario y se destacan aquellos aspectos que matizan, complementan y corrigen el artículo original. Al mismo tiempo, se intenta responder a las cuestiones planteadas...

Multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) analyses are used in psychology to assess convergent and discriminant validity and to study method effects. Most current MTMM approaches assume that measures have equal convergent and discriminant validity across the entire range of trait values and thus do not account for potential trait × method interactions. A novel...

Sounds deviating from an otherwise repeated or structured sequence capture attention and affect performance in an ongoing visual task negatively, testament to the balance between selective attention and change detection. Although deviance distraction has been the object of much research, its modulation across the life span has been more scarcely ad...

The objective was to determine and compare the trait and state components of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptom reports across multiple informants. Mothers, fathers, primary teachers, and secondary teachers rated the occurrence of the ODD symptoms in 810 Spanish children (55% boys) on 2 occasions (end first and second grades). Single sourc...

This study examined whether sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) inattention (IN) symptoms demonstrated cross-setting invariance and unique associations with symptom and impairment dimensions across settings (i.e., home SCT and ADHD-IN uniquely predicting school symptom and impairment dimensions, and vi...

Despite difficulties measuring parenting styles, many studies have demonstrated a significant relationship between disruptive children and certain parenting practices. One of the most frequently used scales to measure parenting styles is the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ). This scale was originally defined based on theoretical dimensions and...

Objective: We examined the stable trait and variable state components of ADHD-inattention (IN), ADHD-hyperactivity/impulsivity (HI), and academic impairment (AI) dimensions using mothers', fathers', primary and secondary teachers' ratings of children's behavior at home and school. We also examined between-informant agreement with regard to trait a...

Although sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) is distinct from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder inattention (ADHD-IN), few studies have examined whether SCT longitudinally predicts other symptom or impairment dimensions. This study used 4 sources (mothers, fathers, primary teachers, and secondary teachers) and 3 occasions of measurement (first, s...

To examine the validity of sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) and ADHD-inattention (ADHD-IN) symptoms in children from Chile. Mothers and teachers rated SCT, ADHD-IN, ADHD-hyperactivity/impulsivity (ADHD-HI), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), anxiety, depression, academic impairment, social impairment, and peer rejection (teachers only) in 652 Chile...

Resumen El objetivo del trabajo es definir el patrón de rendimiento sobre el WISC-IV de una muestra de niños con trastorno por déficit de atención e hi-peractividad (TDAH). El WISC-IV se aplicó a una muestra de 74 niños con TDAH entre los 6 y los 12 años (76% varones). No hubo diferencias significativas entre los distintos subtipos de TDAH sobre la...