ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2021
The Gap Between Cognition and Adaptive Behavior in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Implications for Social Anxiety and the Moderating Effect of Autism Traits.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- 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
- Transdiagnostic behavioral and sociodemographic influences on the cognitive-adaptive functioning gap in neurodivergent children.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- ABAS-3 for Belgium: standardisation, psychometric properties and guidelines for fair assessment.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2026Article
- Academic anxiety and cognitive reflection in neurodivergence based on evidence from a large international sample.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Multi-informant measurement of social anxiety symptoms in youth with social anxiety with and without autism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Implications of Social Anxiety Symptoms in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Is There a Predictive Role of Interpersonal Sensitivity and Substance Abuse?Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Differences in daily life executive functioning between people with autism and people with schizophrenia.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Motor skills predict adaptive behavior in autistic children and adolescents.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
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Abstract
The gap between cognitive ability and adaptive behavior has been thought to enhance psychopathology among people with autism, particularly among those without intellectual disability. We examined this association by exploring the gap between cognitive understanding of social behavior and socially adaptive behavior, and its impact on social anxiety symptoms, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and depressive symptoms, among 53 university students with autism (without intellectual disability). A higher cognition-social adaptation discrepancy was associated with more social anxiety, but this effect was moderated by autistic trait (AT) levels; a greater gap was associated with more avoidance symptoms of social anxiety only among students with high AT. Cognitive flexibility and prosocial behavior may mitigate the effects of AT. Potential implications and interventions are discussed.
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