Challenges in Emotional Regulation in Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism

Laurent, Amy C.; Rubin, Emily

doi:10.1097/00011363-200410000-00006

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“…Our findings are consistent with previous investigations reporting high rates of emotion dysregulation in individuals with ASD (Laurent and Rubin 2004;Samson et al 2012). However, to our knowledge, this is the first study to provide preliminary evidence supporting a relationship between all the core features of autism and emotion dysregulation.…”

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“…These responses take the form of irritability, poor anger control, temper tantrums, self-injurious behavior, aggression, and mood dysregulation (Lecavalier et al 2006;Prizant and Laurent 2011;Quek et al 2012). In addition, there is an increasing recognition of the impact of severe emotion disturbances in ASD (Laurent and Rubin 2004;Mazefsky et al 2012;Samson et al 2012), and initial empirical findings suggests that maladaptive emotional responses may contribute to impaired functioning (Jahromi et al 2013) and could consequently affect long-term outcome.…”

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“…Maladaptive or idiosyncratic strategies (see Laurent and Rubin 2004), such as avoidance, venting, or crying, are used more frequently by children with ASD (Konstantareas and Stewart 2006;Jahromi et al 2012). Recently, one study suggested that children and adolescents with ASD made less frequent and less effective use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies such as goal-directed behaviors or social support seeking compared to typically developing youth (Jahromi et al 2012).…”

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Emotion Dysregulation and the Core Features of Autism Spectrum Disorder

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The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between emotion dysregulation and the core features of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which include social/communication deficits, restricted/repetitive behaviors, and sensory abnormalities. An 18-item Emotion Dysregulation Index was developed on the basis of expert ratings of the Child Behavior Checklist. Compared to typically developing controls, children and adolescents with ASD showed more emotion dysregulation and had significantly greater symptom severity on all scales. Within ASD participants, emotion dysregulation was related to all core features of the disorder, but the strongest association was with repetitive behaviors. These findings may facilitate the development of more effective therapeutic strategies targeting emotion dysregulation in order to optimize longterm outcomes for individuals with ASD.

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Emotion Dysregulation and the Core Features of Autism Spectrum Disorder

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“…One additional question is whether individuals with ASD are able to laugh at themselves (Beermann and Ruch 2011) or whether they use humor as an emotion regulation strategy , both of which seem to be crucial parts of "genuine humor". Whether individuals with ASD are less able to suppress laughter (Robbins and Vandree 2009) is related to emotion and selfregulation, in which individuals with ASD seem to experience difficulties (Laurent and Rubin 2004). Studying laughter suppression and self-regulation of emotion would further facilitate an understanding of humor in ASD.…”

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Humor(lessness) elucidated – Sense of humor in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Review and Introduction

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2013

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“…Individuals with ASD may engage more frequently in the latter due to difficulties in understanding social, unstructured, or novel situations [Lawson, Baron-Cohen, & Wheelwright, 2004], avoidance of novel or uncomfortable situations as a result of behavioral rigidities [e.g. insistence of routine; Gotham et al, 2013], withdrawal from social situations because of sociocommunicative impairments [Dawson & Lewy, 1989;Jawaid et al, 2012], or avoidance of particular situations or environments due to sensory sensitivities [Hilton et al, 2010;Laurent & Rubin, 2004]. These factors may cause difficulties in a second domain of ER, situation modification, where one is able to alter a situation in order to regulate potential emotional responses.…”

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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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Challenges in Emotional Regulation in Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism

Cited by 106 publications

References 14 publications

Emotion Dysregulation and the Core Features of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Emotion Dysregulation and the Core Features of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Humor(lessness) elucidated – Sense of humor in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Review and Introduction

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

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