Depression and Its Measurement in Verbal Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autor/inn/en	Gotham, Katherine; Unruh, Kathryn; Lord, Catherine
Titel	Depression and Its Measurement in Verbal Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 19 (2015) 4, S.491-504 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/1362361314536625
Schlagwörter	Depression (Psychology); Adolescents; Adults; Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Responses; Correlation; Scores; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Individual Characteristics; Clinical Diagnosis; Comparative Analysis; Attribution Theory; Cognitive Processes; Incidence; Parents; Age Differences; Verbal Ability; Emotional Problems; Check Lists; Self Disclosure (Individuals); Parent Attitudes; Questionnaires; Michigan; Manifest Anxiety Scale; Neale Analysis of Reading Ability; Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule; Beck Depression Inventory; Childrens Depression Inventory; Wide Range Achievement Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Autismus; Korrelation; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Vorkommen; Eltern; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Mündliche Leistung; Checkliste; Elternverhalten; Fragebogen
Abstract	In a sample of 50 verbally fluent adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders (age: 16-31 years; verbal IQ: 72-140), we examined the pattern of response and associations between scores on common measures of depressive symptoms, participant characteristics, and clinical diagnosis of depressive disorders. Beck Depression Inventory--Second Edition item descriptives in this autism spectrum disorder sample were compared to previously published data from a large typically developing sample, with results suggesting that cognitive-attributional symptoms of depression may be particularly prevalent in autism spectrum disorder. Scores on a variety of self- and parent-report depression measures were not associated with chronological age or verbal IQ, and were relatively highly correlated with each other and with clinical diagnosis of a mood disorder. The Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition and the Adult Self-Report "Depressive" scale best identified both depressed and non-depressed participants in this sample, though neither was particularly strong. Validation studies of depression measures in the autism spectrum disorder population are necessary to advance research into this prevalent and impairing comorbidity. (As Provided).
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