Publications by authors named "Mackenzie Bougoure"
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- 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.
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