The current study assessed the relation among unique aspects of executive functioning
impairments (i.e., activation, response suppression, attentional orienting, and stimulus suppression) and ADHD symptom domains (inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity) in a non-referred, mixed gender sample of college-aged adults. Executive functioning was assessed using a series of oculomotor tasks including the Variable Cue to Target Prosaccade, the Countermanding Task, the Oculomotor Cueing Task, and the Oculomotor Capture Task. A purposive sampling technique was used to recruit a non-referred sample of 97 college-aged, young adults from a larger screening sample of students enrolled in an introductory psychology course at Florida State University. Multilevel modeling procedures, as well as linear regression, were utilized to examine whether unique relationships could be established between ADHD symptom domains and deficient performance on the oculomotor tasks; moreover, the moderating role of sex was evaluated. In addition, data were examined regarding the relationships between executive functioning and real-world impairments.
