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Intense/obsessional interests in children with gender dysphoria: a cross-validation study using the Teacher’s Report Form
OBJECTIVE: This study assessed whether children clinically referred for gender dysphoria (GD) show symptoms that overlap with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Circumscribed preoccupations/intense interests and repetitive behaviors were considered as overlapping symptoms expressed in both GD and ASD....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29021824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-017-0189-9 |
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author | Zucker, Kenneth J. Nabbijohn, A. Natisha Santarossa, Alanna Wood, Hayley Bradley, Susan J. Matthews, Joanna VanderLaan, Doug P. |
author_facet | Zucker, Kenneth J. Nabbijohn, A. Natisha Santarossa, Alanna Wood, Hayley Bradley, Susan J. Matthews, Joanna VanderLaan, Doug P. |
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description | OBJECTIVE: This study assessed whether children clinically referred for gender dysphoria (GD) show symptoms that overlap with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Circumscribed preoccupations/intense interests and repetitive behaviors were considered as overlapping symptoms expressed in both GD and ASD. METHODS: To assess these constructs, we examined Items 9 and 66 on the Teacher’s Report Form (TRF), which measure obsessions and compulsions, respectively. RESULTS: For Item 9, gender-referred children (n = 386) were significantly elevated compared to the referred (n = 965) and non-referred children (n = 965) from the TRF standardization sample. For Item 66, gender-referred children were elevated in comparison to the non-referred children, but not the referred children. CONCLUSIONS: These findings provided cross-validation of a previous study in which the same patterns were found using the Child Behavior Checklist (Vanderlaan et al. in J Sex Res 52:213–19, 2015). We discuss possible developmental pathways between GD and ASD, including a consideration of the principle of equifinality. |
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spelling | pubmed-56134512017-10-11 Intense/obsessional interests in children with gender dysphoria: a cross-validation study using the Teacher’s Report Form Zucker, Kenneth J. Nabbijohn, A. Natisha Santarossa, Alanna Wood, Hayley Bradley, Susan J. Matthews, Joanna VanderLaan, Doug P. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health Research Article OBJECTIVE: This study assessed whether children clinically referred for gender dysphoria (GD) show symptoms that overlap with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Circumscribed preoccupations/intense interests and repetitive behaviors were considered as overlapping symptoms expressed in both GD and ASD. METHODS: To assess these constructs, we examined Items 9 and 66 on the Teacher’s Report Form (TRF), which measure obsessions and compulsions, respectively. RESULTS: For Item 9, gender-referred children (n = 386) were significantly elevated compared to the referred (n = 965) and non-referred children (n = 965) from the TRF standardization sample. For Item 66, gender-referred children were elevated in comparison to the non-referred children, but not the referred children. CONCLUSIONS: These findings provided cross-validation of a previous study in which the same patterns were found using the Child Behavior Checklist (Vanderlaan et al. in J Sex Res 52:213–19, 2015). We discuss possible developmental pathways between GD and ASD, including a consideration of the principle of equifinality. BioMed Central 2017-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5613451/ /pubmed/29021824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-017-0189-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Zucker, Kenneth J. Nabbijohn, A. Natisha Santarossa, Alanna Wood, Hayley Bradley, Susan J. Matthews, Joanna VanderLaan, Doug P. Intense/obsessional interests in children with gender dysphoria: a cross-validation study using the Teacher’s Report Form |
title | Intense/obsessional interests in children with gender dysphoria: a cross-validation study using the Teacher’s Report Form |
title_full | Intense/obsessional interests in children with gender dysphoria: a cross-validation study using the Teacher’s Report Form |
title_fullStr | Intense/obsessional interests in children with gender dysphoria: a cross-validation study using the Teacher’s Report Form |
title_full_unstemmed | Intense/obsessional interests in children with gender dysphoria: a cross-validation study using the Teacher’s Report Form |
title_short | Intense/obsessional interests in children with gender dysphoria: a cross-validation study using the Teacher’s Report Form |
title_sort | intense/obsessional interests in children with gender dysphoria: a cross-validation study using the teacher’s report form |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29021824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-017-0189-9 |
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