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ArticleJournal of psychopathology and clinical science2022

Social functioning and the presentation of anxiety in children on the autism spectrum: A multimethod, multiinformant analysis.

Michelle C Hunsche, Matti Cervin, Eric A Storch, Philip C Kendall, Jeffrey J Wood, Connor M Kerns

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Article in Journal of psychopathology and clinical science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Michelle C HunscheDepartment of Psychology.ORCID 0000-0003-1941-8231
Matti CervinDepartment of Clinical Sciences.ORCID 0000-0003-1188-8706
Eric A StorchDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences.
Philip C KendallDepartment of Psychology.
Jeffrey J WoodDepartment of Education.
Connor M KernsDepartment of Psychology.

Funding

Treatment of Autism Symptoms in Children (TASC): Initial RCT with Active ControlR01MH094391 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI WOOD, JEFFREY JAMES · 2012 to 2016
$1.9M
1/3 Treatment of Anxiety in Autism Spectrum DisorderR01HD080098 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI WOOD, JEFFREY JAMES · 2014 to 2016
$663k
National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentNICHD NIH HHS R01 HD080098NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH094391
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Co-occurring anxiety in children on the autism spectrum is associated with greater social challenges, including poorer social skills and relationships, which may influence the severity and presentation of anxiety symptoms, particularly social anxiety. The current study used Bayesian network analytics (Williams & Mulder, 2020) and a multimethod approach to examine (a) how different facets of social functioning relate to one another and to anxiety severity and comorbidity, (b) which facet(s) are most influential and thus may represent optimal targets for intervention, and (c) how social functioning relates to the presentation of social fears in a large treatment-seeking sample of autistic children with anxiety disorders (n = 191, 7-13 years). Results indicated strong associations among measures of social ability (i.e., theory of mind [ToM], social motivation, friendship attainment) and among measures of social integration (i.e., bullying, interpersonal and peer difficulties), with only bullying demonstrating a significant association with anxiety. ToM was the most interconnected variable in the network, and social motivation demonstrated the strongest individual connections with other variables, particularly with other facets of social ability. Socially anxious children with impaired ToM were less likely to express fears of negative evaluation, resulting in a distinct diagnostic presentation of social fears. Findings suggest that social motivation and ToM may represent important targets for intervention for autistic children with co-occurring anxiety. Further, social-cognitive difficulties associated with autism, like ToM, may play a role in distinct manifestations of anxiety in these youth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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Autistic DisorderAdolescentAnxietyAnxiety DisordersBayes TheoremChildHumansSocial Interaction

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PMID35230861
PMCPMC9439580
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