Understanding the Contributions of Trait Autism and Anxiety to Extreme Demand Avoidance in the Adult General Population

Autism and anxiety are thought to be related to extreme demand avoidance (EDA), which is characterised by intense avoidance of everyday demands. However, the relative importance of autism and anxiety to EDA has yet to be investigated, and little is known about EDA in adulthood. We conducted two onli...

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Autores principales: White, Rhianna, Livingston, Lucy A., Taylor, Emily C., Close, Scarlett A. D., Shah, Punit, Callan, Mitchell J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9015283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35437676
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05469-3
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description Autism and anxiety are thought to be related to extreme demand avoidance (EDA), which is characterised by intense avoidance of everyday demands. However, the relative importance of autism and anxiety to EDA has yet to be investigated, and little is known about EDA in adulthood. We conducted two online survey studies (Ns = 267 and 549) with adults in the general population to establish the relative importance of autistic traits and anxiety as predictors of demand avoidance, using dominance analysis. Both autistic traits and anxiety were unique and equally important predictors of demand avoidance. These findings suggest EDA is linked to autism and are consistent with the theory that demand avoidance behaviours are potentially anxiety-driven in adults. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10803-022-05469-3.
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spelling pubmed-90152832022-04-19 Understanding the Contributions of Trait Autism and Anxiety to Extreme Demand Avoidance in the Adult General Population White, Rhianna Livingston, Lucy A. Taylor, Emily C. Close, Scarlett A. D. Shah, Punit Callan, Mitchell J. J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper Autism and anxiety are thought to be related to extreme demand avoidance (EDA), which is characterised by intense avoidance of everyday demands. However, the relative importance of autism and anxiety to EDA has yet to be investigated, and little is known about EDA in adulthood. We conducted two online survey studies (Ns = 267 and 549) with adults in the general population to establish the relative importance of autistic traits and anxiety as predictors of demand avoidance, using dominance analysis. Both autistic traits and anxiety were unique and equally important predictors of demand avoidance. These findings suggest EDA is linked to autism and are consistent with the theory that demand avoidance behaviours are potentially anxiety-driven in adults. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10803-022-05469-3. Springer US 2022-04-18 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9015283/ /pubmed/35437676 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05469-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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