ArticleResearch in autism spectrum disorders2023
Emotion Regulation and Executive Function: Associations with Depression and Anxiety in Autism.
Article in Research in autism spectrum disorders, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06181864 (Emotional Regulation to Manage Anxiety and Anger in Individuals With Autism), which is not on this map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Emotional Regulation to Manage Anxiety and Anger in Individuals With Autism
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Emotion regulation in autistic adolescents: a mixed methods systematic review.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2025Pooled it
- Executive Functioning Is Linked to Internalizing Symptoms in Autistic Adults With Higher Support Needs.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Article
- Executive function challenges persist into young adulthood and predict mental health outcomes in autism.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Article
- Understanding the Impact of Living Situation and Social Satisfaction on Depression and Substance Use in Autistic Young Adults Without Intellectual Disability.Autism in adulthood · 2026Article
- Psychosocial hierarchies of modifiable risk for Alzheimer's disease: A networks analysis.PloS one · 2026Article
- Application of neurobiofeedback therapy technology on social skills and emotion regulation in children with autism spectrum disorder.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Trajectory of Irritability in Autistic and Typically Developing Youth From Early Childhood to Adolescence.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Self-Regulation in Neurodivergent Children and Adolescents With and Without Co-occurring Anxiety and Depression.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Characterizing Inhibitory Control Challenges Among Autistic Adults: An Examination of Demographic and Psychiatric Moderators and Associations with Anxiety Symptomatology.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Anxiety and inhibitory control play a chain mediating role between compassion fatigue and Internet addiction disorder among nursing staff.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Understanding depression in autism: the role of subjective perception and anterior cingulate cortex volume.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- Relationship Between Stressful Life Events and Depression Among Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Subcomponents of Executive Function.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Disentangling the association between cognitive flexibility and anxiety in autistic youth: real-world flexibility versus performance-based task switching.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Exploring motherhood dilemmas and coping strategies among mothers of children with autism: a qualitative study in mainland China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The relationship between distress tolerance and behavioral activation on anxiety and depression symptomatology in autistic youth: Leveraging self and caregiver perspectives.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Understanding Depression in Autism: The Role of Subjective Perception and Anterior Cingulate Cortex Volume.Research square · 2024Article
- Contribution of the serotonergic system to developmental brain abnormalities in autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Review
- Patterns and correlates of two-year changes in depressive symptoms for autistic adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Pathways to Psychopathology Among Autistic Adults.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
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Abstract
Background: Adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are prone to experience co-occurring mental health conditions such as mood or anxiety disorders, as well as impairments in emotion regulation and executive functioning. However, little research has examined inter-relationships among these constructs, despite evidence of additional stressors and increased risk of internalizing disorders at this age, relative to non-autistic individuals. If either emotion regulation or executive functioning are shown to have patterns of association with mental health, this can inform mechanism-based intervention. Method: Fifty-seven autistic adolescents and adults (16-25 years) with ASD in a transition intervention completed questionnaires and clinician-administered measures at baseline. Analyses assessed whether executive functioning impairment, above and beyond emotion regulation impairment, were associated with depression and anxiety symptoms. Results: ASD characteristics, emotion regulation, anxiety, and depression were significantly correlated. ASD characteristics was a significant contributor to depression and emotion regulation impairments were significant contributors to anxiety and depression. Findings indicated that inhibition difficulties did not uniquely contribute to depression or anxiety above emotion regulation impairment. Difficulties in cognitive flexibility were associated with depression above and beyond ASD characteristics, IQ, and emotion regulation, but not associated with anxiety. Conclusions: Although preliminary, findings suggest that inflexibility and regulatory impairment should be considered in depression remediation approaches. Improving ER, on the other hand, may have broader transdiagnostic impact across both mood and anxiety symptoms in ASD.
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