صورة الذات و صورة الاخر (الاقران)‎ كما يدركها الاطفال ذوي اضطراب نقص الانتباه و فرط الحركة

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Introduction: Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) attention considers one of the mental disorders in the psychological health field as the child suffers from low self-perception and incapable to focus attention or form friendships with peers.

Problem: This study compares two types of image, the self- image and the other's image (peers).

Self-image is the image formed for a child about himself as an entity in the universe in its all dimensions, the physical, psychological and the social, being based on conscious or non-coconscious basics.

The current study problem is crystallized in these questions: Do the self-image and the other’s image (peers) differ in the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) children and typical children on scale of self-image? And do the self-image and the other’s image (peers) differ in the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD children and typical children on scale of the other’s image? Objective: The current study drives at exploring self-image and the other’s image (peers) in children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), holding comparison between those atypical children and typical children in late childhood stage.

Instruments: The Non-Verbal IQ Scale (Colored Ravin) by Emad Ahmed H.

Ali, 2016, the Hyperactivity Index, 10 Items Attached to Conner’s Scale for Evaluating Child’s Behavior-Family Image (by Abdel Raqib El-Behairy, 2011), Self-Image Test (by researcher), Peers Image Test (by researcher).

Sample: It consists of (30) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD male children and (30) typical children aged (9-12 yrs.

old) in late childhood.

Methodology: The Study uses the qualitative-comparative method for exploring the self-image and the other's image (peers) in late childhood stage for children aged (9-12 years old)..

Study Results: There are significant statistical differences between the Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and non-ADHD children on scale of self-image, in favor of the typical children.

There are significant statistical differences between the ADHD and non-ADHD children on scale of peers-image, in favor of the typical children.