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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2017

How Anxious Do You Think I Am? Relationship Between State and Trait Anxiety in Children With and Without ASD During Social Tasks.

J Mertens, E R Zane, K Neumeyer, R B Grossman

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The impact of specialist resource centres on autistic pupils' experience of mainstream school.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026
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  2. Trait and state mathematics anxiety in autistic and non-autistic school-aged boys.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025
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  7. The effect of ambient sounds on decision-making and heart rate variability in autism.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2021
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  9. Autistic People Do Enhance Their Selves.Social psychological and personality science · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

J MertensFACE Lab, Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02459, USA. Julia_mertens@emerson.edu.
E R ZaneFACE Lab, Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02459, USA.
K NeumeyerFACE Lab, Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02459, USA.
R B GrossmanFACE Lab, Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02459, USA. Ruth_grossman@emerson.edu.

Funding

Verbal/non-verbal asynchrony in adolescents with high-functioning AutismR01DC012774 · NIDCD · EMERSON COLLEGE · PI GROSSMAN, RUTH B. · 2013 to 2016
$1.5M
Communicative and Emotional Facial Expression Production in Children with AutismR21DC010867 · NIDCD · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI GROSSMAN, RUTH B. · 2010 to 2011
$383k
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC012774NIDCD NIH HHS R21 DC010867
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often exhibit increased anxiety, even in non-stressful situations. We investigate general anxiousness (anxiety trait) and responses to stressful situations (anxiety state) in 22 adolescents with ASD and 32 typically developing controls. We measured trait anxiety with standardized self- and parent-reported questionnaires. We used a Biopac system to capture state anxiety via skin conductance responses, mean heart rate and heart rate variability during high- and low-anxiety tasks. Results reveal higher trait anxiety in adolescents with ASD (p < 0.05) and no group difference in state anxiety. Increased parent-reported trait anxiety may predict decreased state anxiety during high-stress conditions. Together, these findings suggest that higher trait anxiety may result in dampened physical responses to stress.

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Interpersonal RelationsThinkingAdolescentAnxiety DisordersAutism Spectrum DisorderChildCohort StudiesFemaleHeart RateHumansMalePhotic StimulationSelf ReportStress, PsychologicalSurveys and QuestionnairesAnxietyASDBiophysiologyStandardized measures

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PMID28074356
PMCPMC5503798

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