Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK.
Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP, UK.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2019 Mar;49(3):1035-1047. doi: 10.1007/s10803-018-3781-9.
Anxiety is highly prevalent in autistic children. Yet interpretation biases implicated in anxiety in non-autistic individuals have received little research attention in this group. Twenty-two autistic children and 25 typical children completed an ambiguous scenarios interview and questionnaire-based measures of anxiety. A subsample of mothers completed parent-report and adult relevant versions of the interview and anxiety questionnaires. Autistic children self-reported similar interpretations of ambiguous scenarios, and similar levels of anxiety, to their typical peers. In contrast, mothers of autistic children reported greater levels of anxiety, and more negative interpretations of ambiguous scenarios in both their children and themselves, relative to mothers of typical children. These data highlight the importance of including autistic children's self-reports when measuring and treating anxiety.
自闭症儿童普遍存在焦虑。然而，在自闭症群体中，与焦虑相关的解释偏差在研究中却很少受到关注。22 名自闭症儿童和 25 名典型儿童完成了一个模棱两可的情景访谈和基于问卷的焦虑测量。一个子样本的母亲完成了对访谈和焦虑问卷的父母报告和成人相关版本。自闭症儿童对模棱两可的情景的自我报告的解释与他们的典型同龄人相似，焦虑水平也相似。相比之下，自闭症儿童的母亲报告说，他们的孩子和自己的焦虑水平更高，对模棱两可的情景的解释也更消极，而典型儿童的母亲则没有。这些数据强调了在测量和治疗焦虑时纳入自闭症儿童自我报告的重要性。
