Specificity of Episodic Future Thinking in Adolescents: Comparing Childhood Maltreatment, Autism Spectrum, and Typical Development.

IF 2.9 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL
A Lau-Zhu, C Chan, D Gibson, E Stark, J Wang, F Happé, J Stacey, M Cooper
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Abstract

Maltreatment and autism can be associated with overlapping difficulties across functional domains (e.g., social, emotional, and sensory) and high rates of mental health problems. A cognitive approach focussing on affect-laden cognition, here on episodic future thinking (FT), could help inform cognitive assessments and adapt psychological interventions. Three groups of adolescents (N = 85), (i) maltreatment (n = 28), (ii) autism (n = 29), and (iii) typical development without maltreatment/autism (TD; n = 28), matched in age (10-16 years old), sex (assigned at birth), and socioeconomic status, completed a newly adapted online Autobiographical Future Thinking Test. As predicted, the maltreatment group generated significantly fewer specific future events relative to the TD group, however, the number of specific future events did not significantly differ between the autism and the other groups. Exploratory analyses showed that lower FT specificity was significantly associated with more depressive (but not anxiety) symptoms across the three groups. These findings shed light on the cognitive profiles of both maltreatment and autism during adolescence and signal FT as a potential therapeutic target for adolescents with these developmental differences. Our study lays the foundation for additional comparisons of maltreatment-related presentations versus autism with improved designs and a broader set of cognitive and clinical domains.

青少年发作性未来思维的特异性:比较童年虐待、自闭症谱系和典型发育。
虐待和自闭症可能与各功能领域(如社交、情感和感官)的重叠困难以及高发的心理健康问题有关。以情感为导向的认知方法,这里指的是偶发未来思维(FT),有助于为认知评估提供信息并调整心理干预措施。三组青少年(N = 85),(i) 受虐待组(n = 28),(ii) 自闭症组(n = 29),(iii) 无虐待/自闭症的典型发育组(TD;n = 28),在年龄(10-16 岁)、性别(出生时分配)和社会经济地位方面匹配,完成了新改编的在线自传体未来思维测试。正如预测的那样,虐待组产生的具体未来事件明显少于自闭症组,但具体未来事件的数量在自闭症组和其他组之间没有明显差异。探索性分析表明,在三个组别中,较低的未来事件特异性与较多的抑郁症状(而非焦虑症状)明显相关。这些发现揭示了青少年时期受虐待和自闭症的认知特征,并预示着FT可能成为具有这些发育差异的青少年的治疗目标。我们的研究为更多与虐待相关的表现与自闭症的比较奠定了基础,同时也改进了设计,扩大了认知和临床领域的范围。
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Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Psychology-Developmental and Educational Psychology
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