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Specificity of Episodic Future Thinking in Adolescents: Comparing Childhood Maltreatment, Autism Spectrum, and Typical Development.
Lau-Zhu, A; Chan, C; Gibson, D; Stark, E; Wang, J; Happé, F; Stacey, J; Cooper, M.
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  • Lau-Zhu A; Department of Experimental Psychology, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. alex.lauzhu@psy.ox.ac.uk.
  • Chan C; Division of Psychiatry, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK. alex.lauzhu@psy.ox.ac.uk.
  • Gibson D; Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK. alex.lauzhu@psy.ox.ac.uk.
  • Stark E; Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
  • Wang J; Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
  • Happé F; Department of Experimental Psychology, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • Stacey J; Department of Psychiatry, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • Cooper M; Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol ; 2024 Aug 21.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39167319
ABSTRACT
Maltreatment and autism can be associated with overlapping difficulties across functional domains (e.g., social, emotional, and sensory) and high rates of mental health problems. A cognitive approach focussing on affect-laden cognition, here on episodic future thinking (FT), could help inform cognitive assessments and adapt psychological interventions. Three groups of adolescents (N = 85), (i) maltreatment (n = 28), (ii) autism (n = 29), and (iii) typical development without maltreatment/autism (TD; n = 28), matched in age (10-16 years old), sex (assigned at birth), and socioeconomic status, completed a newly adapted online Autobiographical Future Thinking Test. As predicted, the maltreatment group generated significantly fewer specific future events relative to the TD group, however, the number of specific future events did not significantly differ between the autism and the other groups. Exploratory analyses showed that lower FT specificity was significantly associated with more depressive (but not anxiety) symptoms across the three groups. These findings shed light on the cognitive profiles of both maltreatment and autism during adolescence and signal FT as a potential therapeutic target for adolescents with these developmental differences. Our study lays the foundation for additional comparisons of maltreatment-related presentations versus autism with improved designs and a broader set of cognitive and clinical domains.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Reino Unido Pais de publicación: Estados Unidos
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Reino Unido Pais de publicación: Estados Unidos