ArticleAutism in adulthood2020
Measurement of subcategories of repetitive behaviors in autistic adolescents and adults.
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- Assessment of feasibility of actigraphy as a measure of clinical change in response to an experimental interventional treatment in adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Benefit or Problem: Exploration of How Response Options Affect Self-Reported Behaviors and Interests in Autistic Adults.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Sensory processing associated with subcategories of restricted and repetitive behaviors in Japanese children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Relations of Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors to Social Skills in Toddlers with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Neuroticism Drives Associations Between Repetitive Behaviors and Depression in Autistic Adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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- 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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Abstract
backgroundRestricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs) are core features of autism. Factor-analytic studies comprised primarily of children have provided evidence for two domains of RRBs: Repetitive Sensory Motor (RSM) and Insistence on Sameness (IS) behaviors. The present study explores the validity of the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) and the Repetitive Behavior Scale-Revised (RBS-R) for assessing these RRB subtypes in autistic adolescents and adults.
methodsThe sample included 293 participants (M
resultsExploratory correlations were modest and provided weak evidence in favor of the utility of a CFA for the ADI-R. The RBS-R Caregiver and Self-Report CFA and internal consistencies supported the two-factor RSM and IS model tested. Consistent with previous literature, NVIQ was negatively correlated with the RBS-R Caregiver RSM subscale, but not meaningfully associated with IS. Neither RBS-R Self-Report subscale were meaningfully correlated with NVIQ. Across instruments, RSM subscales were correlated, but associations between IS were minimal.
conclusionsThe present study provides initial support for the use of the RBS-R Caregiver and Self-Report to measure dimensions of RSM and IS behaviors in autistic adolescents and adults. The present data did not support the use of the ADI-R to assess these RRB subtypes in older individuals. Conclusions must be interpreted cautiously in light of the present study's sample limitations. Additional research is needed to understand differences in caregiver and self-reported RRBs. Further research on RRBs in autistic adolescents and adults, particularly in samples of greater gender and racial/ethnic diversity, is critical to inform community understanding and knowledge of autism in adulthood.
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