Publications by authors named "I Magiati"
Article Synopsis
- Autistic individuals often have to disguise their true selves in social situations, a process known as masking or camouflaging.
- Researchers have used the CAMouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) to assess the level of camouflaging in autistic people, but there’s debate about whether it really measures camouflaging or related experiences like social anxiety.
- In our study with 308 autistic adults, we analyzed CAT-Q responses alongside measures of social anxiety and other traits, revealing that camouflaging behaviors mostly stood apart, affirming that CAT-Q effectively captures the distinct experience of camouflaging among autistic individuals.
Many autistic people use strategies known as 'camouflaging' to change how noticeable their autistic traits are in social situations. Previous research suggests that camouflaging is largely motivated by psychological and social factors. However, most studies so far have only looked at a few psychosocial factors related to camouflaging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study compared and explored the neurocognitive profiles of siblings of persons with and without neurodevelopmental conditions (NDCs) and associations between objective test performance and self-reported psychosocial functioning.
Methods: Siblings of persons with and without NDCs (64 NDC and 64 control siblings; mean age 19.88 years, range 11-27 years, 73.
Camouflaging involves hiding one's autistic characteristics in social situations. This mixed methods systematic review synthesized research on psychosocial factors associated with camouflaging and its relationship with mental well-being. Six databases were searched.
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