Anxiety and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) commonly co-occur, but school-based assessment practices surrounding identification of co-occurring presentations are not well understood.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 7 representative gaps

• Is reduced social competence a mechanism linking elevated autism spectrum symptoms with increased risk for social anxiety? (2022) · doi

  ASD and social anxiety are both associated with reduced social competence as evidenced by difficulties implementing fundamental social skills for successful social interactions, but it remains unclear whether reduced social competence reflects a mechanism that explains the increased risk for social anxiety associated with elevated autism spectrum symptoms.

  Keywords: social anxiety associated reduced competence evidenced difficulties implementing fundamental skills successful interactions remains unclear whether
• School Psychologists’ Assessment Practices for Students with Co-Occurring Anxiety and Autism Spectrum Disorder (2021) · doi

  Anxiety and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) commonly co-occur, but school-based assessment practices surrounding identification of co-occurring presentations are not well understood.

  Keywords: anxiety autism spectrum disorder commonly occur school based assessment practices surrounding identification occurring presentations well
• A Psychometric Analysis of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents Among Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Caregiver–Adolescent Agreement, Factor Structure, and Validity (2019) · doi

  Despite its widespread use in samples of youth with ASD, the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) has not received psychometric evaluation within this population; thus, the validity of its use in research and clinical practice for ASD remains unclear.

  Keywords: despite widespread samples youth social anxiety scale adolescents received psychometric evaluation within population thus validity
• The Experience of Anxiety in Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders (2012) · doi

  Anxiety is known to be common among young adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), yet little is known about the nature of their experiences or the strategies they use to live and cope with their reported anxiety.

  Keywords: anxiety known common among young adults autism spectrum disorders little nature experiences strategies live cope
• Self-esteem moderates the impact of perceived social support on the life satisfaction of adults with autism spectrum disorder (2022) · doi

  Background and aims: Although social resources and self-esteem are well-known predictors of subjective well-being in the general population, the relations among these factors have not yet been investigated in autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

  Keywords: well background aims social resources self esteem known predictors subjective general population relations among factors
• Assessing and Treating Anxiety in Individuals with Autism (2021) · doi

  Despite the reported high comorbidity of autism and anxiety, there has been very limited research on how to directly assess and treat anxiety, especially with individuals who have limited communication skills.

  Keywords: anxiety limited despite reported high comorbidity autism there directly assess treat especially individuals communication skills
• Social Anxiety in Relation to Self-Control Depletion Following Social Interactions (2015) · doi

  Although prior research suggests that high social anxiety is associated with poor self-control during and after social interactions, only a few studies have formally tested this relationship.

  Keywords: social prior suggests high anxiety associated poor self control interactions formally tested relationship