Lifetime and perceived stress, social support, loneliness, and health in autistic adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Although the health consequences of life stress exposure in the general population are well known, how different stressors occurring over the lifetime cause morbidity and mortality in autism is unclear, as are the factors that moderate and mediate these associations. The few studies that have compared autistic and nonautistic individuals have used instruments that yield few stress exposure indices and assess stressors occurring over short time periods.

Method

To address these issues, we used the Stress and Adversity Inventory to assess lifetime stressor exposure and perceived stressor severity in 127 autistic and 104 nonautistic adults. Moderated mediation analysis examined associations between stressor exposure and physical and mental ill-health with respect to t

SUBMITTER: Moseley RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8513810 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature