ArticleAutism : the international journal of research and practice2020
Alexithymic and autistic traits: Relevance for comorbid depression and social phobia in adults with and without autism spectrum disorder.
Article in Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06213194 (Investigating The Effects of Executive Functions and Social Cognition on the Relationship Between Autistic Traits and Mental Health), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Investigating The Effects of Executive Functions and Social Cognition on the Relationship Between Autistic Traits and Mental Health
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Alexithymia in neurodevelopmental populations: a scoping review of Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, and dual diagnosis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Understanding Mechanisms that Maintain Social Anxiety Disorder in Autistic Individuals Through the Clark and Wells (1995) Model and Beyond: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Autistic traits and social anxiety in children and adolescents: the mediating role of theory of mind and social adaptive behavior.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Childhood trauma as a mediator between autistic traits and depression: Evidence from the ALSPAC birth cohort.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Depression in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Neurobiological Convergence and Emerging Therapeutic Strategies.Biology · 2026Review
- Cognitive and affective empathy, executive functions, and the key role of personal distress: Why do autistic traits predict mental health symptoms in neurotypical adults?Cognitive processing · 2026Article
- Autistic Adults Avoid Unpredictability in Decision-Making.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Measurement of Anxiety and Depression Among Autistic Adults: Concordance Between Diagnostic and Screening Instruments in a Feasibility Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Social Anxiety Symptoms Predict Poorer Facial Emotion Recognition in Autistic Male Adolescents and Young Adults Without Intellectual Disability.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Maternal autistic traits and anxiety in children with typical development in Chinese families: a moderated mediation model of mothers' negative emotional expressions and child gender.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The Association Between Autistic Traits and Depression in College Students: The Mediating Roles of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Social Self-Efficacy.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Alexithymia in Adult Autism Clinic Service-Users: Relationships with Sensory Processing Differences and Mental Health.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Pathways to Psychopathology Among Autistic Adults.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
- A network analysis of interoception, self-awareness, empathy, alexithymia, and autistic traits.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2022Article
- Autism and other disorders of social interaction: where we are and where to go from here.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2022Article
- The role of alexithymia and autistic traits in predicting quality of life in an online sample.Research in autism spectrum disorders · 2022Article
- Less Illusion of a Just World in People with Formally Diagnosed Autism and Higher Autistic Traits.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
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- Identification of aberrant innate and adaptive immunity based on changes in global gene expression in the blood of adults with autism spectrum disorder.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2021Article
- Improving the measurement of alexithymia in autistic adults: a psychometric investigation and refinement of the twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale.Molecular autism · 2021Article
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9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
lay abstractAdults with autism often develop mental health problems such as depression and social phobia. The reasons for this are still unclear. Many studies found that alexithymia plays an important role in mental health problems like depression. People with alexithymia have difficulties identifying and describing their emotions. Almost every second person with autism has alexithymia. Therefore, we explored in this study whether alexithymia is linked to worse mental health in autistic people. We looked at two common diagnoses, depression and social phobia. We found that alexithymia increased symptoms of depression, while autistic traits increased symptoms of social phobia. Our results suggest that alexithymia and autistic traits can increase the risk of mental health problems. An early assessment could help prevent mental health problems and improve quality of life.
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