Cognitive Processes in Autism: Repetitive Thinking in Autistic versus Non-Autistic Adults

Autor/inn/en	Cooper, Kate; Russell, Ailsa; Calley, Steph; Chen, Huilin; Kramer, Jaxon; Verplanken, Bas
Titel	Cognitive Processes in Autism: Repetitive Thinking in Autistic versus Non-Autistic Adults
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 26 (2022) 4, S.849-858 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cooper, Kate) ORCID (Russell, Ailsa)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/13623613211034380
Schlagwörter	Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Correlation; Behavior Disorders; Prediction; Measures (Individuals); Schemata (Cognition); Cognitive Processes; Scores; Adults; Comparative Analysis; Intelligence Tests; Anxiety; Anxiety Disorders; Severity (of Disability); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Participant Characteristics; Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence; Obsessive Compulsive Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Korrelation; Vorhersage; Messdaten; Cognition; Schema; Kognition; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Angst; Schweregrad; Psychiatrische Symptomatik
Abstract	Repetitive and restricted behaviours are a core feature of autism, and cognition in autistic individuals may also be repetitive and restricted. We aimed to investigate the relationship between repetitive behaviours and repetitive thinking. We predicted that autistic people would experience more repetitive, perseverative, visual and negative cognition than controls. We predicted that repetitive thinking would be associated with repetitive behaviours in the autistic participants. We recruited autistic (n = 54) and control (n = 66) participants who completed measures of insistence on sameness and obsessive-compulsive behaviours. Participants then took part in 5 days of descriptive experiencing sampling, recording their thoughts when a random alarm sounded. Consistent with our hypothesis, autistic participants reported more repetitive thinking. Contrary with our other hypotheses, autistic participants reported equivalent frequency of perseveration, visual thoughts and negative thoughts to non-autistic participants. Moreover, participants who reported more obsessive thinking reported more repetitive behaviour (insistence on sameness), but there was no such relationship between repetitive thinking and behaviour. Autistic participants who reported more repeated thoughts in the descriptive experience sampling had significantly lower obsessive thinking scores. We conclude that anxiety focused cognitions may drive insistence on sameness behaviours, and that the relationship between repetitive cognition and behaviour is complex and warrants further investigation. (As Provided).
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