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Subgroups of Temperament Associated with Social-Emotional Difficulties in Infants with Early Signs of Autism

Links between temperament and social-emotional difficulties are well-established in normative child development but remain poorly characterized in autism. We sought to characterize distinct temperament subgroups and their associations with concurrent internalizing and externalizing symptoms in a sample of 103 infants showing early signs of autism.

Citation:
Chetcuti L, Uljarevic M, Varcin KJ, Boutrus M, Wan MW, ... Whitehouse AJO et al. Subgroups of Temperament Associated with Social-Emotional Difficulties in Infants with Early Signs of Autism. Autism Res. 2020;13(12):2094-101.

Keywords:
autism spectrum disorder; externalizing; infants; internalizing; temperament

Abstract:
Links between temperament and social-emotional difficulties are well-established in normative child development but remain poorly characterized in autism. We sought to characterize distinct temperament subgroups and their associations with concurrent internalizing and externalizing symptoms in a sample of 103 infants showing early signs of autism.