Understanding social behaviours across neurodiverse young people: roles of social cognition and self-regulation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Differences in social behaviours are common in young people with neurodevelopmental conditions (NDCs). Recent research challenges the long-standing hypothesis that difficulties in social cognition explain social behaviour differences.

Aims

We examined how difficulties regulating one's behaviour, emotions and thoughts to adapt to environmental demands (i.e. dysregulation), alongside social cognition, explain social behaviours across neurodiverse young people.

Method

We analysed cross-sectional behavioural and cognitive data of 646 6- to 18-year-old typically developing young people and those with NDCs from the Province of Ontario Neurodevelopmental Network. Social behaviours and dysregulation were measured by the caregiver-reported Adaptive Behavior Assessme

SUBMITTER: Iturmendi-Sabater I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11822952 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature