Summary
ABSTRACT/PROJECT SUMMARY Anxiety is one of the most common and debilitating comorbidities with ADHD, affecting 57% of youth and 84% of adults, with particularly high rates in girls and women. Despite its widespread prevalence, this co-occurrence is often overlooked and poorly understood, contributing to worse mental health outcomes and greater economic costs than either condition alone. Social processes (i.e., social cognitions and relationships) appear to contribute to the emergence of anxiety in youth with ADHD, but extant work has most often relied on mother-reports in community samples, la