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Anxiety and Interpretation of Ambiguity in Autistic Children, Typical Children and Their Mothers

Neil, L; White, H; Warren, K; Pellicano, E; (2018) Anxiety and Interpretation of Ambiguity in Autistic Children, Typical Children and Their Mothers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 10.1007/s10803-018-3781-9. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Anxiety is highly prevalent in autistic children. Yet interpretation biases implicated in anxiety in non-autistic individuals have received little research attention in this group. Twenty-two autistic children and 25 typical children completed an ambiguous scenarios interview and questionnaire-based measures of anxiety. A subsample of mothers completed parent-report and adult relevant versions of the interview and anxiety questionnaires. Autistic children self-reported similar interpretations of ambiguous scenarios, and similar levels of anxiety, to their typical peers. In contrast, mothers of autistic children reported greater levels of anxiety, and more negative interpretations of ambiguous scenarios in both their children and themselves, relative to mothers of typical children. These data highlight the importance of including autistic children's self-reports when measuring and treating anxiety.

Type: Article
Title: Anxiety and Interpretation of Ambiguity in Autistic Children, Typical Children and Their Mothers
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-018-3781-9
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3781-9
Language: English
Additional information: © The Author(s) 2018. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Keywords: Anxiety, Autism, Child, Cognition
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10063331
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