ArticleResearch in autism spectrum disorders2022
Characterizing difficulties with emotion regulation in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder.
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- Emotion regulation in children and adolescents: a systematic review and quality assessment of behavioral and physiological assessment methods and their theoretical foundations.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Brief Report: Child Emotion Dysregulation Mediates the Association Between Parenting Stress and Behavioral Challenges in Autistic Toddlers and Preschoolers.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Review and Developmental Model: Early Childhood Emotion Regulation and Co-Regulation in Autism.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026Review
- Humour as emotion regulation and resource in autism: a narrative review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Addressing Emotional Dysregulation Within NDBI for Young Autistic Children: Outcomes and Factors Related to Change.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Analyzing Emotion Regulation Behaviors in Children and Adolescents with Non-Specific Intellectual Developmental Disabilities (NS-IDDs) During a Game Situation.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Valence and Intensity of Emotional Expression in Autistic and Non-Autistic Toddlers.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- The prevalence, correlates, and clinical implications of hoarding behaviors in high-functioning autism.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Expression and co-regulation of negative emotion in 18-month-olds at increased likelihood for autism with diverse developmental outcomes.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
- The Emotion Dysregulation Inventory-Young Child: Psychometric Properties and Item Response Theory Calibration in 2- to 5-Year-Olds.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2024Article
- A PROMIS®ing New Measure for Quantifying Emotion Dysregulation in Toddlers and Preschoolers: Development of the Emotion Dysregulation Inventory-Young Child.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Resting frontal alpha asymmetry as a predictor of executive and affective functioning in children with neurodevelopmental differences.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background: Difficulties with emotion regulation (ER) underlie emotional/behavioral challenges and co-occurring psychiatric symptoms in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet very little is known about the early development of emotion dysregulation. The present study aimed to identify differences in positive and negative emotional reactivity and regulation strategies in toddlers with and without ASD. Method: Nine tasks from the Results: Toddlers with ASD showed significantly less positive affect and greater frustration compared to non-ASD toddlers; reactivity was comparable between the groups for fear. Both groups used ER strategies in a similar pattern across tasks, with the exception that toddlers with ASD more often engaged in distraction to regulate. Effects of age and developmental level are discussed. Conclusions: Toddlers with ASD were robustly characterized by greater frustration and lower joy despite frequent and age appropriate attempts to regulate their emotions. This study provides preliminary evidence that observable indicators of emotion dysregulation are present by two years of age. Clinical implications and future research directions are discussed.
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