Brief Report: Social Behavior and Special Interests in the Stigmatization of Autistic College Students.

Autor: Stockwell KM; Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA. ks6hv@virginia.edu.; Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, PO Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA, 22904-4400, USA. ks6hv@virginia.edu., Bottini S; Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA.; Marcus Autism Center, Atlanta, GA, USA., Jaswal VK; Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, PO Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA, 22904-4400, USA., Gillis JM; Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of autism and developmental disorders [J Autism Dev Disord] 2021 Sep; Vol. 51 (9), pp. 3356-3364. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Nov 04.
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-020-04769-w
Abstrakt: Autistic people, by definition, differ in social behavior from non-autistic individuals. One characteristic common to many autistic people is a special interest in a particular topic-something spoken about with such frequency and intensity that it may be stigmatized by non-autistic peers. We investigated college students' interest in interacting with peers described as behaving in ways characteristic of autism (or not), and additionally described as having a special interest (or not). As expected, autistic characters were more stigmatized, but autistic characters with a special interest were not more stigmatized than those without. Only among non-autistic characters was having a special interest associated with greater stigmatization. Findings give further insight into factors influencing the stigmatization of autistic college students.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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