Emotion regulation and internalizing symptoms in children with autism spectrum disorders

Rieffe, Carolien; Oosterveld, Paul; Terwogt, Mark Meerum; Mootz, Saskia; Leeuwen, Edwin J. C. van; Stockmann, Lex

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“…Only two of the informant report measures, the Social Skills Questionnaire [SSQ; Spence, 1995] and the Emotion Regulation and Social Skills Questionnaire [ERSSQ; Beaumont & Sofronoff, 2008] involved teacher informants; the remaining informants were parents. As shown in Table 1, all measures were used by only one study except for three: (a) the Emotion Regulation Checklist [ERC; Shields & Cicchetti, 1997], a parent report measure of children's typical ways of managing emotional experiences, was used in two of the studies [Jahromi, Bryce, & Swanson, 2013;Scarpa & Reyes, 2011]; (b) the ERSSQ [Beaumont & Sofronoff, 2008] was used in two studies [Beaumont & Sofronoff, 2008;Butterworth et al, 2013]; and (c) the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire [SDQ; Goodman, 1997;Muris, Meesters, & van den Berg, 2003], a parent report of adjustment and psychopathology of children and adolescents, was used as such in Rieffe et al [2011] and was also used as self-report [Khor et al, 2014]. Two of the studies used more than one informant report measure [Beaumont & Sofronoff, 2008;Scarpa & Reyes, 2011].…”

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“…With the ASD population in particular, emotional awareness may be a prerequisite to attentional deployment [Rieffe et al, 2011]. Research suggests that individuals with ASD have difficulties recognizing their own and others' emotions [Baron-Cohen et al, 2000], are significantly more alexithymic than their peers [Hill et al, 2004;Tani et al, 2004;Williams & Happé, 2010], and have a higher likelihood of focusing on negative or irrelevant information than their peers [Embregts & van Nieuwenhuijzen, 2009].…”

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“…Some preliminary evidence suggests that these irregular patterns of responding in individuals with ASD are based in atypical physiological responses to emotional stimuli, such as less arousal to sad expressions than typical controls [Bölte, Feineis-Matthews, & Poustka, 2008]. Controlled attentional deployment also requires cognitive flexibility, defined as "the ability to shift to different thoughts or actions depending on situational demands" [Geurts, Corbett, & Solomon, 2009, p. 74], which can be impaired in individuals with ASD [Geurts et al, 2009;Van Eylen et al, 2011], who are known to be predisposed to rumination [Rieffe et al, 2011;Spek, van Ham, & Nyklíček, 2013]. Emotional reactions are further modified through appraisals of a situation and of the capacity to cope with it, known as cognitive change.…”

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A Systematic Literature Review of Emotion Regulation Measurement in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder

2014

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Emotion regulation (ER) difficulties are a potential common factor underlying the presentation of multiple emotional and behavioral problems in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). To provide an overview of how ER has been studied in individuals with ASD, we conducted a systematic review of the past 20 years of ER research in the ASD population, using established keywords from the most comprehensive ER literature review of the typically developing population to date. Out of an initial sampling of 305 studies, 32 were eligible for review. We examined the types of methods (self-report, informant report, naturalistic observation/ behavior coding, physiological, and open-ended) and the ER constructs based on Gross and Thompson's modal model (situation selection, situation modification, attention deployment, cognitive change, and response modulation). Studies most often assessed ER using one type of method and from a unidimensional perspective. Across the 32 studies, we documented the types of measures used and found that 38% of studies used self-report, 44% included an informant report measure, 31% included at least one naturalistic observation/behavior coding measure, 13% included at least one physiological measure, and 13% included at least one open-ended measure. Only 25% of studies used more than one method of measurement. The findings of the current review provide the field with an in-depth analysis of various ER measures and how each measure taps into an ER framework. Future research can use this model to examine ER in a multicomponent way and through multiple methods. Autism Res 2014, 7: 629-648 [American Psychiatric Association, 2013], and there is considerable evidence that the majority also struggle with associated emotional problems. For instance, in a population derived cohort of 5-to 16-year-olds, Totsika, Hastings, Emerson, Lancaster, and Berridge [2011] found that 85% of youth with ASD without an intellectual disability (ID) had clinically significant levels of hyperactivity, 74% of emotional problems, and 64% of conduct problems, compared to much lower rates in a typically developing comparison group (19% hyperactivity, 18% emotional problems, and 22% conduct problems). Further, youth with ID and ASD had higher rates of emotional disorders than those with only ID (88% vs. 63% for hyperactivity, 71% vs. 42% for emotional problems, and 65% vs. 46% for conduct problems, respectively). There is also considerable co-occurrence of multiple emotional problems in individuals with ASD. Approximately 40-50% of youth with ASD are estimated to meet criteria for two or more psychiatric disorders, often combining attentional or behavioral problems (e.g. ADHD) with internalizing problems (e.g. anxiety disorder), even after taking into account symptoms that may be related to core ASD sociocommunicative and behavioral symptoms [Leyfer et al., 2006;Simonoff et al., 2008].

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A Systematic Literature Review of Emotion Regulation Measurement in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder

2014

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“…Psychometric studies have highlighted that those with ASD not only have difficulties in interpersonal skills such as few friendships, little emotional connectedness, empathy and social enjoyment (e.g., Baron-Cohen et al, 2001, Baron-Cohen and Wheelwright, 2003Rogers et al, 2007;Chevallier et al, 2012a;Calder et al, 2012), but also have difficulties in processing their own emotions including poor emotional introspection, clarity, expression and regulation (e.g., Hill et al, 2004;Berthoz and Hill, 2005;Konstantareas and Stewart, 2006;Szatmari et al, 2008;Petrides et al, 2011;Rieffe et al, 2011;Samson et al, 2012). Hedonic abnormalities from sensitive arousal have also been noted (e.g., Baranek et al, 2006;Baron-Cohen et al, 2009).…”

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Investigating emotional impairments in adults with autism spectrum disorders and the broader autism phenotype

Berthoz

Lalanne

Crane

et al. 2013

Psychiatry Research

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There is an increasing interest in the socio-affective atypicalities observed in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The aim of this study was to further explore emotional responsiveness in adults with ASD using well-validated self-reports of alexithymia and extend these with consideration of anhedonia, and to determine whether these features are part of a broader autism phenotype. Thirty-eight adults with ASD, 87 parents of ASD individuals and 47 typical controls completed the Autism Spectrum Quotient, the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale and the Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire, as well as the Chapman Physical and Social Anhedonia Scales. The ASD group differed from controls and parents on most measures, with the exception of physical and social anhedonia, relative to parents. Parents differed from controls on social anhedonia, and a higher proportion of parents were classed as alexithymic, relative to controls. Cluster analysis revealed that some parents share more similarities with ASD participants than with controls. The results suggest that socio-affective impairments are characteristic of ASD, and feature as part of the broader autism phenotype.

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“…Individuals with ASD, compared to TD participants, seem to have a dysfunctional pattern of emotion regulation, characterized by less frequent use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies (goal-directed behaviors, seeking social support, cognitive reappraisal; Jahromi et al, 2012;Rieffe et al, 2011;Samson et al, 2012) and more frequent use of maladaptive strategies (avoidance, venting, expressive suppression; Jahromi et al, 2012;Konstantareas and Stewart, 2006;Samson et al, 2012Samson et al, , 2015aMazefsky et al, 2014). Emotion dysregulation in ASD has been linked to increased psychopathology (Mazefsky et al, 2014), lower levels of prosocial peer engagement (Jahromi et al, 2013), and higher levels of maladaptive behavior (Samson et al, 2015b).…”

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White matter structure in the uncinate fasciculus: Implications for socio-affective deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Samson

Dougherty

Lee

et al. 2016

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging

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a b s t r a c tIndividuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have social and communication deficits and difficulties regulating emotions. The brain bases of these socio-affective deficits are not yet clear, but one candidate is structural connectivity in the left uncinate fasciculus, which connects limbic temporal and frontal areas thought to be involved in socio-affective processing. In this study, we assessed white matter structure in the left and right uncinate fasciculus in 18 high-functioning individuals with ASD and 18 group-matched typically developing (TD) controls using Diffusion Tensor Imaging. To test specificity of the associations, we also examined the association between both uncinate fasciculi and restricted and repetitive behaviors. Compared to TD individuals, individuals with ASD had significantly lower fractional anisotropy (FA) in the left and right uncinate. Group status significantly moderated the association between left uncinate and socio-affective deficits, indicating that within the ASD group, FA was associated with socio-affective deficits: Individuals with ASD with lower FA in the left uncinate had significantly more social and emotion regulation deficits. There was no association with restricted and repetitive behaviors. This study provides evidence that the left uncinate may play a critical role in socio-affective skills in individuals with ASD.

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Emotion regulation and internalizing symptoms in children with autism spectrum disorders

Cited by 129 publications

References 32 publications

A Systematic Literature Review of Emotion Regulation Measurement in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder

A Systematic Literature Review of Emotion Regulation Measurement in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Investigating emotional impairments in adults with autism spectrum disorders and the broader autism phenotype

White matter structure in the uncinate fasciculus: Implications for socio-affective deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder

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