Anxiety in High-Functioning Children with Autism

By Alinda Gillott, F. Furniss, A. Walter. Autism, 2001

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High-functioning children with autism were compared with two control groups on measures of anxiety and social worries. Comparison control groups consisted of children with specific language impairment (SLI) and normally developing children. Each group consisted of 15 children between the ages of 8 and 12 years and were matched for age and gender. Children with autism were found to be most anxious on both measures. High anxiety subscale scores for the autism group were separation anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. These findings are discussed within the context of theories of autism and anxiety in the general population of children. Suggestions for future research are made.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Variables Associated with Anxiety and Depression in Children with Autism (2011, neutral): “Further, different anxiety and depression instruments yield different results within studies ( Gillott et al. 2001; Vickerstaff et al. 2007).”
• The epidemiology of autism spectrum disorders. (2007, positive): “anxiety, depression) may be influenced by severity of core deficits, cognitive impairments, and/or comorbid medical disorders (54, 82).”
• Optogenetic investigation of neural circuits underlying brain disease in animal models (2012, background): “Patients with autism and schizophrenia display diverse and variable arrays of symptoms that make the search for a single cause a daunting and possibly unrealistic goa”
• Social and Vocational Skills Training Reduces Self-reported Anxiety and Depression Among Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum (2011, background): “Gillott et al. (2006) found higher levels of general anxiety and social anxiety in children with autism as compared to a typically developing control group, and a control group with specific language impairment.”
• Social Skill Deficits and Anxiety in High-Functioning Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorders (2004, background): “Results of the present study support previous research indicating that individuals with autism spectrum disorders have high levels of anxiety (Gillott et al., 2001; Green et al., 2000; Kim et al., 2000) and are consistent with clinical descriptions of this population (Attwood, 1998; Tantam, 2000).”