Scheske, Maxie;
(2022)
Relationships between parental mental health, peer victimisation and internalising symptoms in children with autism.
Doctoral thesis (D.Clin.Psy), UCL (University College London).
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OVERVIEW: This thesis focuses on improving our understanding of the development of internalising symptoms, such as anxiety and depression, for autistic children and adolescents. Part 1 is a systematic review of the literature examining potential environmental risk factors for internalising symptoms, within samples of autistic adolescents and young people. The systematic review identified 29 studies, all of which were included in a narrative synthesis. Of these, 23 were also included in six meta-analyses. Findings indicated that eight themes of potentially-modifiable environmental factors showed meaningful associations with internalising symptoms experienced by autistic young people: parental mental health or stress; peer victimisation; parenting behaviour or family interaction; socioeconomic status; negative life events; social interaction; social support and pet ownership. Part 2 describes the empirical paper, which uses secondary data from the Millennium Cohort Study to examine the longitudinal and bi-directional relationships between two hypothesised risk factors (parental mental health, and peer victimisation) with child internalising symptoms. Data was available for 560 young people with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder, across 6 timepoints from birth to 17-years-old. Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Models identified consistent cross-sectional associations between risk factors and child internalising symptoms at each timepoint, and several cross-lagged associations between risk factors and child internalising symptoms, including a bi-directional effect. Part 3 is a critical appraisal of the research, and focuses on three themes: the implications of being a non-autistic researcher conducting research about autism spectrum disorder; the opportunities and limitations of using secondary data from longitudinal cohort studies; and the utility and interpretation of Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Models.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | D.Clin.Psy |
| Title: | Relationships between parental mental health, peer victimisation and internalising symptoms in children with autism |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2022. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10156056 |
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