‘Understanding the relationship between social camouflaging in autism and safety behaviours in social anxiety in autistic and non-autistic adolescents’
Open Access paper from the JCPP
Social camouflaging (hereafter camouflaging) in autism includes factors such as masking and compensating for one’s neurodevelopmental differences, and to assimilate or ‘fit in’ with non-autistic peers. Efforts to hide one’s authentic self and autism traits (masking) resemble impression management (IM) in safety behaviours identified in Clark and Wells’ (1995) cognitive model of social anxiety (SA). This study explores the relationship between camouflaging in autism and safety behaviours in SA among autistic and non-autistic adolescents.
Authors: Jiedi Lei, Eleanor Leigh, Tony Charman, Ailsa Russell, Matthew J. Hollocks
First published: 26 August 2023
https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13884
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