Abstract
Family accommodation refers to changes in families' behavior aimed at reducing children’s psychopathology-related distress (Shimshoni et al. in Indian J ournal of Psychiatry 61(Suppl 1):S93–S103, 2019). Family accommodation of RRBs occurs frequently in families of children with autism, is linked to greater symptom severity (Feldman et al. in J Autism Dev Disord 49(9):3602–3610, 2019), and is unexplored in the context of disruptive behaviors. This study examined child and parent factors associated with disruptive behavior in children with autism. Parents (N = 90; age 2–9 years) reported on children’s autism symptomatology, adaptive functioning, and disruptive behavior, alongside parenting stress and family accommodation of RRBs. Such accommodation contributed significantly to predicting disruptive behavior. These findings indicate that parent behavior is associated with the expression of disruptive behavior in this sample, highlighting potential intervention targets for children with autism.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 2505-2511 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors acknowledge the families who participated in the study and the team of students who worked tirelessly to collect and organize the data. We are appreciative of the Joseph Levy Foundation for their financial support. All authors report no conflict of interest.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords
- Adaptive functioning
- Autism
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Disruptive behavior
- Family accommodation
- Parenting