Autism and Intrinsic Factors Impacting Wellbeing Largely True
“Intrinsic factors are internal influences which impact a person’s wellbeing. Intrinsic factors originate with an individual due to their autism, including cognitive processing differences, communication skills, and mental health profile. These can cause a deterioration as when the issues are not addressed or managed, it exuberates stress and the ability to cope which can then make autistic traits appear more pronounced.”
Summary
Research confirms that internal factors linked to autism—such as differences in cognitive processing, communication challenges, and mental‑health issues—affect wellbeing and can increase stress when not managed. Elevated stress and impaired coping are associated with heightened autism symptom severity, indicating that unmanaged intrinsic factors can exacerbate autistic traits.
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- The Relationship between Stress and Social Functioning in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder and without Intellectual Disability - PMC
These challenges put people with ... as suggested by a growing literature on stress in children that indicates that children with ASD have differential responses to stress than healthy children....
- Social Context in Stress and Autism: Comparing Physiological Profiles Across Two Social Paradigms in Youth with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder - PMC
The social world is often stressful for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Research shows youth with ASD demonstrate physiological hyperreactivity to some social stressors (e.g., interaction) but not others (e.g., evaluation); ...
- Stress System Activation in Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder - PMC
A study of the ANS response to a cognitive task (i.e., Color Stroop Task; Stroop, 1935) demonstrated an elevated HR at baseline and during stress conditions and an elevated but blunted phasic EDA at baseline and during a stress test, respectively, in children with ASD (ages 8–15 years) compared ...
- Contributors to well-being and stress in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder - ScienceDirect
Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) present more well-being and stress problems than parents of typically developing (TD) children. However not all parents present these problems.
- Associations of acute and chronic stress hormones with cognitive functions in autism spectrum disorder - ScienceDirect
Autistic children are more vulnerable to stress, resulting in higher chronic stress. ... Autistic children exhibit higher anxiety, except for social factors. ... Some aspects of cognitive deficits in autism are under influence of chronic stress.
- Emotional stress, cortisol response, and cortisol rhythm in autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review - ScienceDirect
This systematic review evaluated whether there is evidence for (i) increased emotional stress levels, and (ii) a different biological stress response or rhythm [i.e., cortisol stress response, diurnal rhythm, or cortisol awakening response (CAR)] in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) relative to controls.
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