Abstract
Parent–child reciprocity plays a signicant role in shaping children's social interaction skills. The development of conflict management skills throughout childhood and adolescence impacts the individual's social adjustment. The increase in conflictual interaction with one's parents during adolescence affects the transformation of parent–adolescent interaction into a more mutual, equal relationship. Adolescents with ASD and their parents may struggle in this type of interaction due to the adolescents' social and regulatory impairments, in addition to their dependence on their parents' involvement and guidance. The current study aimed to evaluate differences in the way adolescents with and without ASD interact with their parents in a conflictual situation. In addition, the association between parent–adolescent reciprocity and the adolescent's social interaction with an unfamiliar peer was examined in the ASD group. Thirty adolescents with ASD and their parents and 30 typically developing (TD) controls were assessed during a standardized conflict interaction. In addition, adolescents with ASD took part in a conversation with an unfamiliar peer. Interactions were videotaped and coded. Results revealed that during the conflictual interaction, compared to their TD peers, adolescents with ASD were more involved in the conversation and less withdrawn from the parent, while their parents were more sensitive and less intrusive toward them. Parent–adolescent reciprocity was poorer in the ASD (compared to the TD) dyad and was positively associated with the adolescents' social-conversational skills with a peer. These findings emphasize the different developmental trajectory parent–adolescent relationship takes in adolescents with ASD, and its impact on the adolescent's social skills.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 263-273 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Autism Research |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Funding
We are grateful to Sandra Israel-Yaacov and the Bait Echad centers of the Association for Children at Risk, for support in participant recruitment and assessment, and to Dr. Magi Singer, Roni Navon, Elisheva Miron, Roni Golan, Hanale Gilberg, Shulamit Deitch, Noa Reinhardt, Lior Weil, Anat Chomsky and Heli Cohen for assisting with data collection and coding. This study was funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), grant number 1009/15. From the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel (S.J.R., O.G.); Interdisciplinary Center, Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Herzliya, Israel (E.B.); Association for Children at Risk, Givat-Shmuel, Israel (I.M.-S.); Interdisciplinary Center, Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Herzliya, Israel (R.F.) Grant sponsor: Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Grant number: 1009/15. Received June 12, 2018; accepted for publication October 21, 2018 Address for correspondence and reprints: Prof. Ofer Golan, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 5290002 Israel. E-mail: [email protected] Published online 18 December 2018 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/aur.2047 © 2018 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Association for Children | |
| Interdisciplinary Center, Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Herzliya, Israel | |
| Israel Science Foundation | 1009/15 |
Keywords
- Autism spectrum disorder
- adolescence
- conflict
- observational-measures
- parenting
- peer-interaction
- social-communication