{"id":223000,"date":"2025-10-07T03:26:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/playing-to-your-strengths-improves-well-being-in-adult-adhd-new-research-shows"},"modified":"2025-10-07T03:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:26:59","slug":"playing-to-your-strengths-improves-well-being-in-adult-adhd-new-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/playing-to-your-strengths-improves-well-being-in-adult-adhd-new-research-shows","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Playing to your strengths\u2019 improves well-being in adult ADHD, new research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/playing-to-your-strengths-improves-well-being-in-adult-adhd-new-research-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adults with ADHD who recognize and regularly use their personal strengths report better well-being, improved quality of life and fewer mental health difficulties, according to a new international study.<\/p>\n<p>During October\u2019s ADHD Awareness Month, which this year focuses on \u201cthe many faces of ADHD,\u201d researchers from the University of Bath, King\u2019s College London, and Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands have delivered the first large-scale study to quantify psychological strengths in ADHD.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S0033291725101232\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Psychological Medicine<\/i><\/a>, compared 200 adults with ADHD and 200 adults without ADHD on how much they identified with 25 positive traits\u2014including creativity, humor, spontaneity and hyperfocus\u2014defined by researchers as \u201cthings [they] do well or best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adults with ADHD who recognize and regularly use their personal strengths report better well-being, improved quality of life and fewer mental health difficulties, according to a new international study. During October\u2019s ADHD Awareness Month, which this year focuses on \u201cthe many faces of ADHD,\u201d researchers from the University of Bath, King\u2019s College London, and Radboud [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}