Tre studenter med ADHD berättar om upplevelsen av att läsa i högre utbildning
SamhällsvetenskapSocial sciences - psychologyHumanioraThe humanities - psychologySocial sciences - sociologyAdhdCollege studentsPsychologyEmotionsMotivationSense of soc
Research shows that there is a lack of knowledge of adult students with ADHD.
Most of all research focuses on children with ADHD in school. The purpose of
this study was to gain a better understanding of how adult learners with ADHD
experience academic studies related to cognitive difficulties, emotion,
motivation, and their experience of SOC. The questions tried to determine how
any cognitive difficulties and emotions are perceived, how students' motivation
to study impacted and their experience of SOC based on studies in higher
education. To answer the purpose and questions used qualitative interviews
based on three students with ADHD using a hermeneutic method. The results
showed that participants experienced difficulty in concentration during
lectures, as well as the performance of tasks, especially if the data was felt
boring. It also emerged that participants often pushed forward on the data
which resulted in that they were behind in school. The results also showed that
student?s emotions and motivation can have both negative and positive effects
on participants. Emotions as disinterest, frustration and fatigue had a
negative impact on motivation and emotion as interest and happiness had good
impact on motivation. The results also show that participants' sense of SOC
shifts, where a high sense of component intelligible are most important to the
participants' well-being.