@article{ref1,
title="The Role of Decision-Making in Psychological Wellbeing and Risky Behaviours in Autistic Adolescents Without ADHD: Longitudinal Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study",
journal="Journal of autism and developmental disorders",
year="2021",
author="Hosozawa, Mariko and Mandy, William and Cable, Noriko and Flouri, Eirini",
volume="51",
number="9",
pages="3212-3223",
abstract="This study examined the development of decision-making and its association with psychological wellbeing and risky behaviours in adolescents with and without autism. Participants included 270 autistic and 9,713 typically developing adolescents. In both samples, those with a diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were excluded. Data came from the Millennium Cohort Study, a nationally representative population-based birth cohort. Decision-making was assessed using the Cambridge Gambling Task at ages 11 and 14. Psychological wellbeing (happiness, self-esteem, depressive symptoms and self-harm) and risky/antisocial behaviours were self-reported at age 14. After adjusting for sex, cognitive ability, spatial working memory, socioeconomic status and pubertal status, autistic adolescents showed comparable quality of decision-making to that of their peers at both ages but also a more deliberative decision-making style as they aged. Only in autistic adolescents was this decision-making style associated with positive outcomes.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0162-3257",
doi="10.1007/s10803-020-04783-y",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04783-y"
}