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50 Years of ERIC
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Begeer, Sander; De Rosnay, Marc; Lunenburg, Patty; Stegge, Hedy; Terwogt, Mark Meerum – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
The understanding of emotions based on counterfactual reasoning was studied in children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders ("n" = 71) and in typically developing children ("n" = 71), aged 6-12 years. Children were presented with eight stories about two protagonists who experienced the same positive or negative…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Psychological Patterns
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Rieffe, Carolien; Oosterveld, Paul; Terwogt, Mark Meerum; Mootz, Saskia; van Leeuwen, Edwin; Stockmann, Lex – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
The aim of this study was to examine the unique contribution of two aspects of emotion regulation (awareness and coping) to the development of internalizing problems in 11-year-old high-functioning children with an autism spectrum disorder (HFASD) and a control group, and the moderating effect of group membership on this. The results revealed…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Autism, Coping, Depression (Psychology)
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Begeer, Sander; Terwogt, Mark Meerum; Rieffe, Carolien; Stegge, Hedy; Olthof, Tjeert; Koot, Hans M. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
The present study examined the understanding of emotional transfer in 11 children with autism, 20 children with PDD-NOS and 31 typically developing children, aged 6 to 12 years. Children were asked about their emotional responses to successive, conflicting emotional situations. All children reported that preceding emotional situations would…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children
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Scheeren, Anke M.; Begeer, Sander; Banerjee, Robin; Terwogt, Mark Meerum; Koot, Hans M. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
The self-presentation skills of children and adolescents with high-functioning autistic spectrum disorder (HFASD) and typically developing (TD) controls were compared, in response to both hypothetical and real life situations. In both situations, 26 HFASD and 26 TD participants were prompted to describe themselves twice, first in a baseline…
Descriptors: Autism, Audiences, Adolescents, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Begeer, Sander; Terwogt, Mark Meerum; Rieffe, Carolien; Stegge, Hedy; Koot, Hans M. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
We tested whether children with and without high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (HFASD) differ in their understanding of the influence of mood states on behaviour. A total of 122 children with HFASD or typical development were asked to predict and explain the behaviour of story characters during hypothetical social interactions. HFASD and…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Emotional Response, Behavior