Abstract
The present cross-sectional study explored the link between beliefs about the causes of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), self-reported ADHD symptoms, and the perceived related stigma. The sample was convenient and comprised 231 adults aged 18 to 64 years (M = 27.50, SD = 9.77, XX (88.3%) females) without an ADHD diagnosis. Participants completed self-reported scales measuring ADHD symptoms, stigma, and an adapted Literacy Scale measuring the beliefs about the causes of ADHD (i.e., beliefs that ADHD is caused by adversity, by biomedical factors, fate, or the environment). The results suggested that self-reported ADHD symptoms and beliefs that the causes of ADHD are biomedical were positively linked to ADHD-related perceived stigma. The multiple hierarchical regression analysis exploring the predictive power of age, self-reported ADHD symptoms, and beliefs about its causes on the perceived ADHD stigma suggested that these variables explained 11.7% of the variance in ADHD-related stigma. The strongest predictor of ADHD stigma was self-reported ADHD symptoms, followed by beliefs that ADHD is caused by biomedical factors.
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