title: The Relationship Between Intolerance of Uncertainty, Sensory Sensitivities, and Anxiety in Autistic and Typically Developing Children.
abstract: Guided by a recent theory that proposes fundamental differences in how autistic individuals deal with uncertainty, we investigated the extent to which the cognitive construct 'intolerance of uncertainty' and anxiety were related to parental reports of sensory sensitivities in 64 autistic and 85 typically developing children aged 6-14 years. Intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety explained approximately half the variance in autistic children's sensory sensitivities, but only around a fifth of the variance in typical children's sensory sensitivities. In children with autism only, intolerance of uncertainty remained a significant predictor of children's sensory sensitivities once the effects of anxiety were adjusted for. Our results suggest intolerance of uncertainty is a relevant construct to sensory sensitivities in children with and without autism.
authors: Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, 55-59 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0NU, UK. l.neil@ioe.ac.uk.
authors: Louise
authors: L
authors: Neil
authors: Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Karolinska Institutet (KIND), Stockholm, Sweden.
authors: Nora Choque
authors: NC
authors: Olsson
authors: Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, 55-59 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0NU, UK.|School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Pellicano
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D012678:Sensation Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D035501:Uncertainty
keywords: Anxiety; Intolerance of uncertainty; Sensory sensitivities