TY  - INPR
N1  - © 2025 Springer Nature. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Y1  - 2025/02/14/
AV  - public
EP  - 14
TI  - The Relationship Between Interoception, Alexithymia, Autistic Traits and Eating Pathology in Autistic Adults
A1  - Westwood, Heather
A1  - Mandy, Will
A1  - Brewer, Rebecca
KW  - Autism
KW  -  Eating disorder
KW  -  Body image
KW  -  Alexithymia
KW  -  Interoception
JF  - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06708-5
PB  - SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
N2  - This study investigated the mechanisms underlying disordered eating of autistic adults, by investigating associations between eating disorder (ED) symptoms and autistic traits; autism-specific atypical eating; alexithymia; interoception; and body image in autistic and non-autistic participants. Autistic adults (n?=?196) and non-autistic adults (n?=?206) completed online self-report measures assessing ED pathology, atypical eating, body image dissatisfaction, interoception, alexithymia, and autistic traits. Structural Equation Modelling tested a theoretical model of the relationships between these variables, and whether these relationships were moderated by autism diagnosis. Autistic adults self-reported higher ED pathology than non-autistic adults. The proposed model and the strength of the relationship between body image and ED pathology did not differ between the autistic and non-autistic groups. Atypical eating (not related to over-evaluation of weight/shape), however, was only associated with ED pathology in the autistic group. Both traditional and additional factors, including eating disturbances not driven by weight/shape concern, appear to contribute to ED pathology in autism.
ID  - discovery10205209
ER  -