ArticleAutism : the international journal of research and practice2022
Exploring the impact of adolescent cognitive inflexibility on emotional and behavioural problems experienced by autistic adults.
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- Disentangling the association between cognitive flexibility and anxiety in autistic youth: real-world flexibility versus performance-based task switching.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Using the cognitive rigidity-flexibility dimension to deepen our understanding of the autism spectrum.Personality neuroscience · 2025Review
- A Normative Model Representing Autistic Individuals Amidst Autism Spectrum Phenotypic Heterogeneity.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Refining our Understanding of Anxiety in Autistic Youth: Examining the Role of Behavioral Inflexibility.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
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Abstract
lay abstractAutistic people experience high levels of co-occurring mental health difficulties. To develop more effective treatments, a greater understanding of the thinking processes that may lead to these difficulties is needed. Cognitive inflexibility, defined as a rigid pattern of thoughts and subsequently behaviours, is one possible thinking trait which has previously been associated with both co-occurring mental health difficulties but also other features of autism such as restricted and repetitive behaviours. Restricted and repetitive behaviours include repetitive movements, ritualistic behaviours, and/or highly focused interests. This study investigates the relationship between, cognitive inflexibility, measured using neuropsychological tasks, and emotional and behavioural problems across adolescence and early adulthood. Eighty-one autistic people who were recruited to be representative of the wider autism population were assessed at 16 and 23 years on measures of emotional and behavioural problems, with cognitive inflexibility, restricted and repetitive behaviours and verbal intelligence measured at 16 years. We used statistical modelling to investigate the relationship between cognitive inflexibility and emotional and behavioural symptoms at both timepoints while accounting for the possible relationship with restricted and repetitive behaviours and verbal intelligence quotient. Our results suggest that cognitive inflexibility may be an important factor associated with emotional difficulties across adolescence and early adulthood. This suggests that developing intervention approaches targeting cognitive inflexibility may be an important step in improving the mental health of those with autism.
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