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Feasibility and Efficacy of a Virtual Reality Social Prediction Training in Children and Young Adults with Congenital Cerebellar Malformations. 对患有先天性小脑畸形的儿童和青少年进行虚拟现实社交预测训练的可行性和有效性。

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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-03 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-024-06349-8

Niccolò Butti, Emilia Biffi, Romina Romaniello, Alessandra Finisguerra, Enza Maria Valente, Sandra Strazzer, Renato Borgatti, Cosimo Urgesi

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Exploring Emotional Dysregulation and Avoidance with Caregivers as the Mechanisms Linking Social Communication Understanding and Aggressive Behaviours. 探索情绪失调和回避照顾者是社会沟通理解与攻击行为之间的关联机制。

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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-024-06276-8

Emma Louise Thompson, Karri Gillespie-Smith, Ally Pax Arcari Mair, Ingrid Obsuth

{"title":"Exploring Emotional Dysregulation and Avoidance with Caregivers as the Mechanisms Linking Social Communication Understanding and Aggressive Behaviours.","authors":"Emma Louise Thompson, Karri Gillespie-Smith, Ally Pax Arcari Mair, Ingrid Obsuth","doi":"10.1007/s10803-024-06276-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10803-024-06276-8","url":null,"abstract":"Many autistic adolescents and young adults present with aggressive behaviours, which can be challenging for caregivers. The present study aimed to explore the underlying mechanisms between social communication understanding and aggressive behaviours in autistic and non-autistic adolescents, specifically the role of emotional dysregulation and its impact on avoidance with caregivers. Caregivers of autistic (n = 275) and non-autistic adolescents (n = 123) completed standardised caregiver-report questionnaires measuring social communication understanding, emotional dysregulation, avoidance between the adolescent and caregiver and aggressive behaviours. A serial mediation analysis indicated that levels of social communication understanding were indirectly associated with aggressive behaviours. This occurred through increased emotional dysregulation, which may have led to increased avoidance between the autistic and non-autistic adolescents and their caregivers. These findings support a sequential process by which adolescents with low social communication understanding are more likely to behave aggressively through being emotionally dysregulated and the impact of this on the increased avoidance within the caregiver-adolescent dyad. This process was found within autistic and non-autistic adolescents, suggesting a mechanism across individuals with aggression. These findings indicate that interventions based on improving emotion regulation ability and responses between adolescents and their caregivers may aid in reducing aggressive behaviours in adolescents and young adults with lower social communication understanding.","PeriodicalId":15148,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"2322-2336"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12167310/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140876538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cross-Cultural Generalizability of the First Year Inventory for Early ASD Screening in China. 用于早期 ASD 筛查的 "一年级量表 "在中国的跨文化通用性。

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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-03 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-024-06358-7

Ziyi Zhang, Qingyao Zhu, Tianshu Gao, Kaiyan Gan, Fei Wang, Luyang Guan, Xiaoyan Ke

{"title":"Cross-Cultural Generalizability of the First Year Inventory for Early ASD Screening in China.","authors":"Ziyi Zhang, Qingyao Zhu, Tianshu Gao, Kaiyan Gan, Fei Wang, Luyang Guan, Xiaoyan Ke","doi":"10.1007/s10803-024-06358-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10803-024-06358-7","url":null,"abstract":"The First Year Inventory (FYI) is a parent report screening measure, aimed at identifying the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in 12-month-old infants. This study aimed to investigate the utility of FYI within the Chinese community and develop a short version, encompassing both a low-risk sample and a high-risk sample comprising infants with older siblings diagnosed with ASD. Parents of 53 high-risk (HR) infants and 519 low-risk (LR) infants, aged 11 to 13 months, were recruited. After comparing response distributions across Chinese and American samples, a new factorial structure was developed according to the factor analyses. The construct validity and internal consistency of the two FYI versions were examined. The implementation of FYI in the HR sample was also assessed. Noteworthy disparities in response distribution were observed between the Chinese and American samples. Both FYI 2.0 and the FYI short version demonstrated moderate construct validity and internal consistency, with the FYI short version exhibiting better predictive ability in the HR sample. Significant lower risk scores was observed in the HR sample compared to the LR sample. These findings substantiate the applicability and validity of the Chinese short version of FYI. Future research should include follow-up assessments with the Chinese sample to evaluate cutoff scores, considering the cutoff between sensitivity and specificity and the sample?s characteristics.","PeriodicalId":15148,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"2480-2491"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140850750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Combined Interventional Approach to Train Interview Skills in Autistic Transition-Age Youth. 采用综合干预方法训练自闭症过渡年龄青少年的访谈技能。

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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-024-06299-1

Helen M Genova, Heba E Elsayed, Mikayla Haas, Devan Parrott, Denise Krch, Michael Dacanay, Matthew J Smith

{"title":"A Combined Interventional Approach to Train Interview Skills in Autistic Transition-Age Youth.","authors":"Helen M Genova, Heba E Elsayed, Mikayla Haas, Devan Parrott, Denise Krch, Michael Dacanay, Matthew J Smith","doi":"10.1007/s10803-024-06299-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10803-024-06299-1","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The job interview can be challenging for autistic adolescents considering the required social communication skills. Further, having decreased awareness of personal strengths may make it difficult to advocate for oneself to a future employer. The purpose of the current pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to examine the preliminary efficacy and feasibility of a combined interventional approach using: the Virtual Interview Tool for Autistic Transition-Age Youth (VIT-TAY) and Kessler Foundation Strength Identification and Expression (KF-STRIDE).Method: Twenty autistic transition-age youth (TAY) were randomly assigned to two groups: an intervention group (n = 10) that received 9 h of VIT-TAY (interviewing practice with a virtual human), and three lessons of KF-STRIDE (positive psychology intervention to learn and discuss one's personal character strengths) and a services-as-usual (SAU) group (n = 10). The primary outcome was measured using a video-recorded mock job interview performed at pre- and post-test, which was rated by blinded assessors. Secondary outcomes included self-reports of job interview skill, interview anxiety, work readiness and recent job search behavior.Results: Paired samples t-tests revealed significant differences between pre- and post-test in the intervention group (but not the control group) on the mock interview total score (p = 0.02, d = 0.76) and self-reported job interview skills total score (p = 0.02, d = 0.75). The intervention group (but not the control group) had improvements in work-readiness (p = 0.06, d = 0.53) and job search behavior (p = 0.07, d = 0.52) that were characterized by medium effect sizes.Conclusions: This pilot study suggests that combining VIT-TAY with KF-STRIDE leads to improvements in performance-based and self-reported job interview skills.","PeriodicalId":15148,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"2228-2239"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140876536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Generalisation of Social Communication Skills by Autistic Children During Play-Based Assessments Across Home, School and an Unfamiliar Research Setting. 自闭症儿童在家庭、学校和不熟悉的研究环境中进行游戏式评估时对社交沟通技能的综合运用。

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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-024-06370-x

Sophie Carruthers, Tony Charman, Kathy Leadbitter, Ceri Ellis, Lauren Taylor, Heather Moore, Carol Taylor, Kirsty James, Matea Balabanovska, Sophie Langhorne, Catherine Aldred, Vicky Slonims, Vicki Grahame, Patricia Howlin, Helen McConachie, Jeremy Parr, Richard Emsley, Ann Le Couteur, Jonathan Green, Andrew Pickles

{"title":"Generalisation of Social Communication Skills by Autistic Children During Play-Based Assessments Across Home, School and an Unfamiliar Research Setting.","authors":"Sophie Carruthers, Tony Charman, Kathy Leadbitter, Ceri Ellis, Lauren Taylor, Heather Moore, Carol Taylor, Kirsty James, Matea Balabanovska, Sophie Langhorne, Catherine Aldred, Vicky Slonims, Vicki Grahame, Patricia Howlin, Helen McConachie, Jeremy Parr, Richard Emsley, Ann Le Couteur, Jonathan Green, Andrew Pickles","doi":"10.1007/s10803-024-06370-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10803-024-06370-x","url":null,"abstract":"We investigated autistic children's generalisation of social communication over time across three settings during a play-based assessment with different adults and explore the potential moderating effects on generalisation of age, nonverbal IQ and level of restricted and repetitive behaviours. The social communication abilities of 248 autistic children (2-11 years, 21% female, 22% single parent, 60% white) from three UK sites were assessed from 1984 video interactions in three contexts with three different interaction partners (parent/home, teaching assistant/school, researcher/clinic) at baseline, midpoint (+ 7m) and endpoint (+ 12m) within the Paediatric Autism Communication Trial-Generalised (PACT-G), a parent-mediated social communication intervention. Children's midpoint social communication at home generalised to school at midpoint and to clinic at endpoint. Generalisation was stronger from home to school and clinic than school to home and clinic. Generalisation was not moderated by age, nonverbal IQ or restricted and repetitive behaviour. Broader child development did not explain the pattern of results. The current study is the largest study to date to explore generalisation with autistic children and provides novel insight into their generalisation of social communication skills. Further research is needed to gain a more comprehensive understanding of facilitators of generalisation across settings and interaction partners in order to develop targeted strategies for interventions to enhance outcomes for young autistic children.","PeriodicalId":15148,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"2203-2216"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12167233/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140922224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Autistic Traits and Psychosocial Predictors of Depressive Symptoms. 自闭症特质与抑郁症状的社会心理预测因素。

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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-11 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-024-06361-y

Lorna Camus, Kirsty Jones, Emily O'Dowd, Bonnie Auyeung, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Mary Elizabeth Stewart

{"title":"Autistic Traits and Psychosocial Predictors of Depressive Symptoms.","authors":"Lorna Camus, Kirsty Jones, Emily O'Dowd, Bonnie Auyeung, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Mary Elizabeth Stewart","doi":"10.1007/s10803-024-06361-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10803-024-06361-y","url":null,"abstract":"Higher rates of depression and of depressed mood are associated with autistic traits, and both are associated with social interaction factors, such as social self-efficacy, social motivation and loneliness. This study examined whether these social factors explain the association between autistic traits and depression. 658 participants (527 women) completed an online survey with measures of autistic traits (AQ), social self-efficacy (Social Self-Efficacy Scale), social motivation (Social Striving Assessment Scale), loneliness (UCLA Loneliness Scale) and depressive symptoms (Beck Depression Inventory-II). A mediation analysis found the relationship between autistic traits and depressive symptoms was fully mediated by the other three factors (β[indirect] = .005, z = 2.63, p < .01; β[direct] = .05, z = 1.58, p > .05), forming a pathway from autistic traits, to social self-efficacy, to social motivation, to loneliness and finally to depressive symptoms. These results suggest that targeting social self-efficacy may break this pathway and disrupt this relationship. Interventions targeting supporting positive social interaction should be considered.","PeriodicalId":15148,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"2368-2376"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12167316/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140908710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Brief Report: Sensory Features Associated with Autism After Controlling for ADHD Symptoms. 简要报告：控制ADHD症状后与自闭症相关的感觉特征。

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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-023-06046-y

Ellen C Masters, Kevin M Antshel, Wendy R Kates, Natalie Russo

{"title":"Brief Report: Sensory Features Associated with Autism After Controlling for ADHD Symptoms.","authors":"Ellen C Masters, Kevin M Antshel, Wendy R Kates, Natalie Russo","doi":"10.1007/s10803-023-06046-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10803-023-06046-y","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Sensory processing differences are reported both in children with ADHD and in children with autism. Given the substantial overlap between autism and ADHD, the current study examined which sensory features were uniquely predictive of autistic traits after controlling for ADHD symptoms, age, IQ, and sex in a sample of children and adolescents with autism aged 6-17 years.Methods: The sample included 61 children and adolescents with autism. The Sensory Profile was used to examine Dunn's quadrant model (seeking, sensitivity, avoiding, registration), ADHD symptoms were measured using hyperactivity and attention problems BASC-2 T-scores, and autistic traits were measured using the AQ.Results: After controlling for age, IQ, sex, and ADHD symptoms, Dunn's sensitivity quadrant predicted autistic traits.Conclusions: Findings provide insight into the phenotype of autism and ADHD. Sensory sensitivity may be unique to autism over and above elevated ADHD symptoms that are commonly seen in this population.","PeriodicalId":15148,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"2578-2586"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10105638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Developmental and Functional Outcomes Amongst Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Autistic Children. 不同文化和语言背景的自闭症儿童的发育和功能结果。

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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-024-06654-2

Zehra Al Fahdawi, Cheryl Dissanayake, Ifrah Abdullahi

{"title":"Developmental and Functional Outcomes Amongst Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Autistic Children.","authors":"Zehra Al Fahdawi, Cheryl Dissanayake, Ifrah Abdullahi","doi":"10.1007/s10803-024-06654-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10803-024-06654-2","url":null,"abstract":"Children typically learn by attending to other people. Autism traits may impact access to social stimuli fundamental to early learning, increasing children's likelihood of a learning disability. Recent reports have highlighted that Autistic children from minority backgrounds have a higher likelihood of co-occurring intellectual disability. This study aimed to firstly confirm that early autism traits are concurrently and prospectively associated with lower developmental quotients, and secondly to examine the developmental and functional gains in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and non-CALD Autistic children following one year of Group-based Early Start Denver Model (G-ESDM). Secondary data on 114 non-CALD and 91 CALD Autistic preschoolers receiving the G-ESDM was utilised to address the study aims. Children were administered the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) at entry into the service. The Mullen Scales of Early Learning and the Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales-II were administered at both entry (Time 1) and 12 months later (Time 2). While no concurrent associations were found between autism traits and Developmental Quotient (DQ), significant associations were found prospectively with ADOS scores at Time 1 and DQ at Time 2, holding for both groups after controlling for DQ at Time 1. Autistic children made significant gains in cognition and functional behaviour following one year of early therapy, with no differences between the two groups. The results indicate that young Autistic children make significant gains in early development and add to the sparse research on the developmental and functional outcomes of Autistic children from CALD communities.","PeriodicalId":15148,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"2587-2597"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142728888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Role of Everyday Executive Function in Observed Social Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder. 日常执行功能在观察到的自闭症谱系障碍社交症状中的作用。

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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-03 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-024-06351-0

Christina Burroughs, Rachael A Muscatello, Blythe A Corbett

{"title":"The Role of Everyday Executive Function in Observed Social Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder.","authors":"Christina Burroughs, Rachael A Muscatello, Blythe A Corbett","doi":"10.1007/s10803-024-06351-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10803-024-06351-0","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research suggests there may be differences in the social presentations of autistic males and females. Camouflaging is believed to account for some of these differences and executive function (EF) may support compensatory social behaviors. As few studies have explored the role of sex and everyday EF when evaluating specific social difficulties among autistic youth, the present study seeks to address this. The Social Responsiveness Scale-2 (SRS-2) was used to measure types of social difficulties and the Behavioral Rating Inventory of Executive Function-2 (BRIEF-2) served as a measure of everyday EF. Four three-step hierarchical multiple regressions were conducted with SRS-2 social subscales as dependent variables. Autism symptom severity, BRIEF-2 EF Indices (i.e., behavioral, emotional, and cognitive regulation), and sex served as independent variables. Types of EF impairment significantly predicted social symptoms of autism. Behavioral dysregulation predicted all social symptoms assessed, cognitive dysregulation predicted social awareness and communication challenges, and emotion dysregulation predicted social motivation and communication difficulties. Sex significantly predicted social communication and cognition challenges, beyond the contributions of age, IQ, autism severity, and EF impairment. Findings from this study provide evidence for the contribution of EF to observed social symptoms of autism. Results suggest there may be sex-based differences in the relationship between EF and social problems for autistic youth. Implications and future directions are discussed.","PeriodicalId":15148,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"2217-2227"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11878520/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140858469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Deliberate and Self-Conscious Adaptation of Eye-Contact by Autistic Adults. 自闭症成人对目光接触的有意和自觉适应。

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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-024-06296-4

Alison Garvey, Christian Ryan, Mike Murphy

{"title":"Deliberate and Self-Conscious Adaptation of Eye-Contact by Autistic Adults.","authors":"Alison Garvey, Christian Ryan, Mike Murphy","doi":"10.1007/s10803-024-06296-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10803-024-06296-4","url":null,"abstract":"Eye gaze is widely recognised as an important element in managing social interactions, receiving information from others and communicating information about ourselves. Atypical eye gaze is one of the characteristic hallmarks of autism. Experimental research has contributed significantly to our knowledge of eye-gaze in autism, however, there is a lack of research exploring how autistic individuals describe and understand the phenomenological experience of eye-gaze and eye-contact. The current study explores the subjective experience of deliberate and self-conscious adaptation of eye-contact by autistic adults. Nine autistic adults were interviewed individually about their experiences of eye-contact. Audio recordings were transcribed, and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Themes included gaining awareness of eye contact differences through feedback from others, the interaction of motivation to make eye-contact with a sense of autistic identity, difficulties listening when making eye contact, the importance of familiarity of conversational partners, and strategies to make eye-contact. This study makes an important and novel contribution to understanding the experience of eye-contact differences from the perspective of autistic adults themselves, highlighting the phenomenology of eye-contact as potentially aversive and the social pressure to engage in it, and exploring factors influencing effective eye-contact, with implications for psychological intervention.","PeriodicalId":15148,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"2272-2283"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12167331/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140898358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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