Insecure Attachment and Psychosocial Functioning in Autistic Adults Are Mediated by Depression and Paranoid Ideation

Parnassia Groep

Status: Completed

Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Insecure attachment and psychosocial functioning in autistic adults

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06030167

CWO-27-004

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study examines if depressive symptoms, paranoid ideation, and emotion regulation strategies mediate the relationship between attachment and psychosocial functioning in autistic adults.

Full description

The present study examines if depressive symptoms, paranoid ideation, and emotion regulation strategies mediate the relationship between attachment and psychosocial functioning in autistic adults. Within a cross-sectional design, we used mediation analysis to clarify the roles of co-occurring mental conditions as depressive symptoms, paranoid ideation, and (mal)adaptive emotion regulation strategies in mediating the pathway from insecure attachment to psychosocial functioning in autistic adults. Questionaires about attachment, psychosocial functioning, depressive symptoms, paranoid ideation, and emotion regulation were administered to 83 autistic adults (50 males, 33 females).

Enrollment: 83 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• a primary clinical diagnosis of DSM-5 ASD (APA, 2013)
• age ≥ 18 years
• at least eight years of education.

Exclusion criteria

• intellectual disability (IQ ≤ 80)
• presence of current suicidal ideation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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83 participants in 1 patient group

Assessment of attachment and psychosocial functioning in adults with ASD

Other group

Description:

Questionaires about attachment, psychosocial functioning, depressive symptoms, paranoid ideation, and emotion regulation were administered to 83 autistic adults (50 males, 33 females).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Insecure attachment and psychosocial functioning in autistic adults