Is reduced social competence a mechanism linking elevated autism spectrum symptoms with increased risk for social anxiety?
Chani StarkNicole B GrovesMichael J KoflerPublished in: The British journal of clinical psychology (2022)
The current findings are consistent with prior work implicating reduced social competence as a risk factor for the development of social anxiety among children with ASD, and extend prior work by demonstrating that this link is robust to control for mono-informant/mono-measure bias, age, sex, SES, majority/minoritized race/ethnicity status, clinical comorbidities, and item overlap across measures.