A Comprehensive Investigation of Social Anxiety and Social Evaluative Stress in Autistic Children and Adolescents and Specific Learning Disorders.
The aim was to investigate trait social anxiety and social evaluative stress in autistic children and adolescents and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD). This was done by evaluating behavioral, subjective, and autonomic responses to the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST). Study 1 included 280 children a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 974 - 992 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2026
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