Daydreams and their relationship to Attention deficit disorder among female students with academic learning disabilities

Abstract

     The current study aimed to find out the relationship between daydreaming and Attention deficit disorder among female students with academic  learning disabilities.in the middle school. The basic study sample consisted of (310) female students in the first, second, and third intermediate grades with academic learning disabilities.in the city of Riyadh. The study tools were a scale to measure Attention deficit disorder And maladaptive daydreaming scale  of  female students with academic learning disabilities. The results of the study confirmed the existence of a statistically significant correlation between daydreaming and Attention deficit disorder among female students with academic learning disabilities., and the presence of statistically significant differences in daydreaming between the grades of female students with academic learning disabilities, according to the type of disability  variable (reading, mathematics), in favor of reading disabilities., and not There are statistically significant differences in Attention deficit disorder between the grades of female students with academic learning disabilities. according to the type of disability. variable (reading, mathematics). The results also confirmed the possibility of predicting Attention deficit disorder from daydreaming

Key words: maladaptive daydreaming, Attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities