Employment profiles of autistic people: An 8-year longitudinal study.

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Autistic adults experience difficulties finding and keeping employment. However, research investigating reasons that might explain this difficulty produce mixed results. We gave a survey to 2449 autistic adults and used a statistic method to group them based on their employment status over 8 years. We identified four employment groups that best captured the experiences of autistic adults; this included a group that experienced stable unemployment, a group that experienced stable employment, a group that had high employment that reduced over time, and a group whose employment increased over the 8 years. Further analysis showed that those with fewer autistic traits, younger age, male gender, higher education, later diagnosis age and no co-occurring conditions were more l

SUBMITTER: Bury SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11403919 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature