Social anxiety in high-functioning children and adolescents with Autism and Asperger syndrome - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2008 Oct;38(9):1697-709.

doi: 10.1007/s10803-008-0555-9. Epub 2008 Mar 7.

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Social anxiety in high-functioning children and adolescents with Autism and Asperger syndrome

Sanna Kuusikko et al. J Autism Dev Disord. 2008 Oct.

Abstract

We examined social anxiety and internalizing symptoms using the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C), the Social Anxiety Scale for Children -Revised (SASC-R), and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) in a sample of fifty-four high-functioning subjects with autism or Asperger syndrome (HFA/AS) (M = 11.2 +/- 1.7 years) and 305 community subjects (M = 12.2 +/- 2.2 years). Children and adolescents completed the SPAI-C and SASC-R, and their parents completed the CBCL Internalizing scale. Adolescents with HFA/AS scored higher than the community sample on all measures. Behavioural avoidance and evaluative social anxiety increased by age within the HFA/AS group, whereas behavioural avoidance decreased by age in control participants. Data support that HFA/AS in adolescents may be associated with clinically relevant social anxiety symptoms.

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