Adults and Children with Asperger Syndrome: Exploring Adult Attachment Style, Marital Satisfaction and Satisfaction with Parenthood

Autor/inn/en	Lau, Winnie; Peterson, Candida C.
Titel	Adults and Children with Asperger Syndrome: Exploring Adult Attachment Style, Marital Satisfaction and Satisfaction with Parenthood
Quelle	In: Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 5 (2011) 1, S.392-399 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-9467
DOI	10.1016/j.rasd.2010.06.001
Schlagwörter	Marital Satisfaction; Asperger Syndrome; Attachment Behavior; Interpersonal Relationship; Interaction; Parents; Adults; Children; Child Rearing; Comparative Analysis; Interpersonal Competence; Parent Child Relationship; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Asperger-Syndrom; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Interaktion; Eltern; Child; Kind; Kinder; Kindererziehung; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	Asperger syndrome (AS) is a disorder resembling autism in its problems with social interaction and cognitive flexibility. Today, a number of adults with AS marry and rear children. Yet there has been little research into the quality of their marital and parental relationships. This study explored romantic attachment style, marital satisfaction and parenthood satisfaction in 157 Australian men and women. There was a focal group 22 married adults with a clinically-confirmed AS diagnosis whose child also had AS and three neuro-typical adult control groups: (a) those whose spouse and child had AS, (b) those whose child had AS but spouse did not, and (c) those with no AS family members. Marital satisfaction was high in all four groups. Respondents who had AS themselves were predominantly insecurely avoidant in romantic attachment, in contrast to predominantly securely attachment in all other groups. Having a child with AS reduced parental (though not marital) satisfaction but there was no additional independent contribution of own or spouse's AS. Methodological and practical implications of the findings were considered. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10