The Role of Emotion Regulation and Core Autism Symptoms in the Experience of Anxiety in Autism

Autor/inn/en	Conner, Caitlin M.; White, Susan W.; Scahill, Lawrence; Mazefsky, Carla A.
Titel	The Role of Emotion Regulation and Core Autism Symptoms in the Experience of Anxiety in Autism
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 24 (2020) 4, S.931-940 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Conner, Caitlin M.) ORCID (Mazefsky, Carla A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/1362361320904217
Schlagwörter	Emotional Response; Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Anxiety Disorders; Comorbidity; Youth; Children; Adolescents; Behavior Problems; Self Control; Social Responsiveness Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Emotionales Verhalten; Autismus; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Selbstbeherrschung
Abstract	Youth with autism spectrum disorder are at elevated risk for impaired emotion regulation and clinically impairing anxiety. A prior developmental framework posited that impaired emotion regulation leads to co-occurring psychiatric conditions such as anxiety, with outcome determined in part by autism spectrum disorder-specific moderating factors. Using measures developed and validated in autism spectrum disorder, this study evaluated (1) the association between emotion regulation and anxiety in a large, community-based sample of youth with autism spectrum disorder and a wide range of intellectual and verbal abilities and (2) whether greater core autism spectrum disorder symptoms strengthened the association between impaired emotion regulation and anxiety. Parents of 1107 children with a community diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (881 boys; age 6-17 years) participated in an online survey assessing their child's emotion regulation, anxiety, and autism spectrum disorder symptoms. Emotion regulation impairment significantly predicted whether participants had elevated levels of anxiety, after controlling for demographic variables and autism spectrum disorder symptoms; however, there was no interaction of emotion regulation and autism spectrum disorder symptoms. This study is the first to support the anxiety-emotion regulation association with measures developed and validated specifically for autism spectrum disorder, in a large sample with co-occurring intellectual disability and minimally verbal youth with autism spectrum disorder. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01