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Yulin Cheng; Patrick Dwyer; Connor Tom Keating – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
A growing literature suggests that there is cross-cultural variation in levels of autism-related stigma, which may partially be explained by differences in cultural orientation or autism-related knowledge between countries. This literature has relied heavily on self-report measures of explicit attitudes towards autism; little research has examined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Social Bias, Attitudes toward Disabilities
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Rachel L. Moseley; Darren Hedley; Julie M. Gamble-Turner; Mirko Uljarevic; Simon M. Bury; Grant S. Shields; Julian N. Trollor; Mark A. Stokes; George M. Slavich – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Despite very high rates of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB) in autistic adults, the key psychosocial drivers of this phenomenon remain unknown. To investigate, we examined how lifetime stressor exposure and severity, which have been found to predict STB in non-autistic populations, related to STB in a multinational dataset of 226 autistic…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Stress Variables, Suicide
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Kim, So Yoon; Cheon, Jeong Eun; Gillespie-Lynch, Kristen; Grandits, Jennifer; Kim, Young-Hoon – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
This cross-cultural study examined Koreans' and Americans' explicit stigma and implicit biases toward autism to examine potential mechanisms underlying recent evidence for heightened explicit autism stigma in South Korea relative to the United States. This evidence is somewhat at odds with other evidence that individuals living in collectivistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Social Bias, Attitudes toward Disabilities
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Mac Cárthaigh, Saoirse; López, Beatriz – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
This study explored the relationship between autism knowledge, autistic traits, frequency of contact with autistic people and attitudes towards these individuals in British and South Korean student nurses and whether these relationships were affected by the presence of autistic traits. In total, 331 participants (156 South Korean and 175 British)…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Attitude Change
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Carr, Themba; Lord, Catherine – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the stability of mothers' perceptions of the negative impact of having a child with ASD in a sample of African American and Caucasian families as their children transitioned to early adolescence. Participants were mothers and children participating in an ongoing longitudinal study of children referred for…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Pervasive Developmental Disorders