NCT06030167

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 83 (actual)
• Sponsor: Parnassia Groep · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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

Detailed 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).

Conditions

• Autism Spectrum Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Insecure attachment and 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).

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-10-01
• Primary completion: 2019-06-30
• Completion: 2019-06-30
• First posted: 2023-09-08
• Last updated: 2023-09-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands