Virginia Tech, USA.
The University of Alabama, USA.
Autism. 2020 May;24(4):995-1010. doi: 10.1177/1362361320908101. Epub 2020 Mar 19.
Many adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorder experience difficulty with symptoms of depression. These symptoms can contribute to poor quality of life and lack of independence for adolescents and adults. To better understand these symptoms, we conducted a review of articles that examined the presentation of depression specific to autism spectrum disorder. Our goals in conducting this study were (1) to examine whether depression may be associated with symptoms that are common among people with autism spectrum disorder, such as loneliness or poor social motivation; (2) to determine whether people with autism spectrum disorder experience depression in a different way than the general population; and (3) to add to other recent studies that have examined how common depression is in autism spectrum disorder and how it is typically measured. Our study reviewed 48 papers on this topic. Results showed that a substantial proportion of people with autism spectrum disorder experience significant symptoms of depression. We related our results to social factors commonly studied in this field (i.e. social motivation) and proposed a new model for the development of depression in this population.
许多患有自闭症谱系障碍的青少年和成年人都经历着抑郁症状的困扰。这些症状会导致青少年和成年人的生活质量下降和缺乏独立性。为了更好地理解这些症状，我们回顾了一些专门研究自闭症谱系障碍中抑郁症状的文章。我们进行这项研究的目的是：（1）研究抑郁是否可能与自闭症谱系障碍患者常见的症状有关，例如孤独感或社交动机差；（2）确定自闭症谱系障碍患者的抑郁表现是否与一般人群不同；（3）补充其他最近研究的关于自闭症谱系障碍中抑郁的常见性以及其通常的测量方法。我们的研究回顾了 48 篇关于这个主题的论文。结果表明，相当一部分自闭症谱系障碍患者经历着明显的抑郁症状。我们将这些结果与该领域常见的社会因素（即社交动机）联系起来，并为该人群中抑郁的发展提出了一个新的模型。
