The Comparison of Executive Functions with the Attachment Styles in Students with and without ODD

One of the causes concerns about mental health and impact on growth and performance of children is the increased prevalence of behavioral disorders in children. Therefore, the present study aims to compare executive functions in terms of organization– programming and selective attention- processing speed with the attachment styles in students with and without ODD.
Material and The study is of causal- comparative nature. The statistical population includes all elementary school third to sixth grader male students with and without ODD city of Karaj in the academic year 2015-2016. 40 students having the disorder were chosen by convenience method and 40 ones without the disorder were chosen by cluster method. The participants completed the Andre Ray test, d2, Attachment Scale in Children of Middle and CSI 4 test. Data analysis was carried out by a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and independent T.
It was revealed that organizing- planning in children with the disorder in the process of drawing of the figure (t(78)=4.2, P0.05).
Executive functions in children with oppositional defiant disorder are significantly lower than normal children and also, insecure attachment included consequences such as oppositional behavior, poor education and lack of proper relations with others in these children. Therefore, it is proposed that therapists of the children with the disorder consider some exercises to reinforce and improve the mother-child relation as well as executive functions for these people in order to improve their social and educational functions.