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Emer Gormley; Christian Ryan; Christopher McCusker – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2022
Evidence suggests young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have lower levels of emotion regulation than typically developing peers and struggle to modulate the frequency and intensity of their emotions. It may be that these emotion regulation difficulties are a result of co-occurring alexithymia rather than being a core symptom of ASD. We…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, Self Control
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Vicki Bitsika; Christopher F. Sharpley – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2022
To investigate the contribution made by autistic children's Challenging Behaviour (CB) to their parents' anxiety and depression, parents of 32 autistic boys and 32 autistic girls (aged 6 to 18 years) completed standardised instruments on their children's behaviour and their own anxiety and depression. Significant associations were found between…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Parent Child Relationship, Depression (Psychology), Correlation