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Social Anxiety and ASD: Patterns of Experiences and Beliefs in Adolescence<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pickard, H., Hirsch, C.,\nSimonoff, E.,  & Happ\u00e9., F. (2019,\nMay 1-4). Cognitive, emotional, and sensory correlates of social anxiety in autistic\nand neurotypical adolescents <\/em>[Conference poster presentation].\nInternational Society for Autism Research 2019 Annual Conference, Montreal,\nQu\u00e9bec, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social anxiety is the\nexperience of anxiety in social situations related to fear of negative judgment\nby others. Social anxiety is a challenge reported by individuals with and\nwithout ASD that can make it difficult to form friendships and impact school\nperformance. Some research suggests that factors, such as hypersensitivity to\nstimulation from the environment, are related to social anxiety in people with\nASD, but there is not enough research to say for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who was involved?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sixty-one adolescents\nwith ASD and 62 adolescents without ASD between the ages of 11 and 17 years of\nage and 119 parents participated in this study. A reading level at or above age\n10 and normative or better intellectual ability were required to participate. Adolescents completed several questionnaires on\nsocial anxiety symptoms, ability to cope with uncertainty, sensory processing,\nemotion regulation, ability to identify and describe emotions, and awareness of\nbodily sensations. They also completed a measure of their intellectual\nfunctioning and tasks related to sense experience accuracy and confidence\n(heartbeat tracking task and their confidence in their answer). Parents of the\nadolescents completed questionnaires on their child\u2019s autism traits and on\ntheir tolerance of uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was the outcome?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adolescents with and\nwithout ASD reported similar levels of social anxiety and other emotional\nexperiences related to depressed mood and general anxiousness. In both groups,\nhaving more social anxiety was associated with greater intolerance of\nuncertainty, difficulty with emotion regulation, poor emotional awareness and coping,\nand sensory hypersensitivity. In other words, the experience of social anxiety in\nadolescents with and without ASD was more similar than different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\nare the strengths and limitations of the study?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strengths:\nAdolescents with and without ASD were matched based on intellectual ability,\nwhich allows the researchers to know that different results are not due to\ndifferences in intellectual ability. This study was also designed so that\nadolescents with and without ASD filled out their own questionnaires, which\nprovides a more direct measure of traits, emotions, and behaviors than asking\ncaregivers alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Limitations:\nThis study focuses on individuals without intellectual disability which may\nimpact our understanding of individuals with ASD across all ability levels. Additional\npeer review of the findings may be necessary to know whether the methods are\nstrong enough to generate firm conclusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\nare the implications?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social anxiety can be very\nchallenging for the affected person; however, the experience of social anxiety\nmay not differ all that much between adolescents with and without ASD. If the\nexperience of social anxiety does not differ substantially between adolescents\nwith and without ASD, then interventions that have been demonstrated to work\nfor social anxiety in adolescents without ASD might be useful for adolescents\nwith ASD. More research is needed to confirm this pattern of similarity and to\ndetermine if interventions work well across both clinical groups.<\/p>\n

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