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Developmental paths to anxiety in an Autism-enriched infant cohort: the role of temperamental reactivity and regulation

Ersoy, M. and Charman, T. and Pasco, G. and Carr, E. and Johnson, Mark H. and Jones, Emily J.H. (2021) Developmental paths to anxiety in an Autism-enriched infant cohort: the role of temperamental reactivity and regulation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 51 , pp. 2631-2645. ISSN 0162-3257.

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to explore the associations between temperamental reactivity and regulation and the emergence of anxiety traits in a longitudinal sample of infants enriched for later ASD. Parents of 143 infants who were at high- and low-risk for ASD rated their child’s temperament traits when they were 9, 15 and 24 months old; they rated anxiety and ASD traits when they were 36 months old. The findings suggest that behavioural inhibition may be an early predictor of later anxiety in children with and without ASD and that lower levels of effortful control in children who later develop ASD may contribute to the higher expression of anxiety within this population.

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Item Type: Article
Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Autism Spectrum Disorder, Anxiety, Temperament, Reactivity, Regulation, High-Risk
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
Research Centres and Institutes: Brain and Cognitive Development, Centre for (CBCD)
Depositing User: Emily Jones
Date Deposited: 08 Oct 2020 12:43
Last Modified: 17 Jul 2025 09:26
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40984

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