Gender Differences in Emotion Dysregulation in an Autism Inpatient Psychiatric Sample.
Andrea Trubanova Wieckowski, Stephanie Luallin, Zhaoxing Pan and 3 others
PMID 32222097WHAT IT FOUND
In hospitalized youth with autism, females had higher emotion dysregulation than males, but the difference was small.
Both groups had high scores compared with general youth.
Key findings
01Females had higher emotion dysregulation scores than males, but the difference was small.
02Both male and female participants had emotion dysregulation scores above general youth norms.
03Older females had higher dysphoria scores than older males, while younger females and males did not differ.
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
All participants were psychiatrically hospitalized, so the results may not apply to autistic people who are not in inpatient care. The gender differences were small. The study did not follow participants over time. Nonverbal intelligence testing was not completed for all participants. Emotion dysregulation was measured by caregiver report.
Declared interests
The authors reported no potential conflicts of interest. The article lists NIH extramural and non-U.S. government research support.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that females with autism need a different treatment because their emotion dysregulation is much worse. The female-male difference was small, and both hospitalized groups scored well above general youth.