ArticleAutism : the international journal of research and practice2025
Insistence on sameness, repetitive negative thinking and mental health in autistic and non-autistic adults.
Article in Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Understanding Autistic Adults' Psychological Experiences of Anxiety Problems: A Qualitative Interview Study.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Article
- Humour as emotion regulation and resource in autism: a narrative review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- A non-systematic overview review of self-focused emotion regulation in autistic individuals through the lens of the extended process model.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Review
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Abstract
lay abstractAutistic people are more likely to have mental health problems than non-autistic people. We know that having repetitive and negative thoughts can contribute to multiple mental health problems such as depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Autistic people often do the same behaviours repetitively, and they may also have more repetitive thinking styles. This could contribute to higher rates of mental health problems in autistic people. In this research, we wanted to find out if higher rates of repetitive behaviours contributed to depression and anxiety, and whether this relationship was because of repetitive negative thinking. We asked three groups of autistic adults to take part in the research. Sixty-seven
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