Thomas Völker, Marzia Mazzonetto, Rasmus Slaattelid, Roger Strand
Translating tools and indicators in territorial RRI
Frontiers in research metrics and analytics
increasing literature reported higher rates psychiatric disorders parents children autism spectrum disorder asd well autisticlike features social cognitive functioning however little attention paid association autistic traits global functioning population aim present work investigate clinical functional correlates among parents asd children specific focus ruminative thinking one hundred twenty parents asd children assessed structured clinical interview diagnostic statistical manual mental disorders dsm5 adult autism subthreshold spectrum adas spectrum ruminative response scale rrs social occupational functioning assessment scale sofas subjects least 1 psychiatric disorder 392 showed significantly higher adas spectrum rrs scores subjects history school difficulties language development alterations scored significantly higher specific adas spectrum domains significant negative correlation found sofas adas spectrum scores well sofas rrs scores adas spectrum nonverbal communication domain score identified statistically predictive variable presence psychiatric disorders lower sofas scores finally found significant indirect effect adas total score sofas score fully mediated rrs total score parents asd children seem associated higher vulnerability toward psychopathology lower global functioning ruminative thinking may play role relationship functional outcome