Emotional self-awareness in autism: A meta-analysis of group differences and developmental effects.

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Autistic people are thought to have difficulties with identifying and understanding their own emotions. This is referred to as emotional self-awareness. It is important to study emotional self-awareness as people who are more able to understand their own emotions, whether they are autistic or not, are more able to respond to them appropriately, as well as to identify them in other people. It has not yet been confirmed whether autistic people have difficulties with emotional self-awareness, or if any reported difficulties are actually due to the way in which emotional self-awareness is measured in autistic people. If these difficulties do exist, it is also not known when these difficulties emerge. In this research, we reviewed 47 existing studies that measured em

SUBMITTER: Huggins CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7874376 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature