Exploring the construct validity of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire: A factor analytic study.

• Tác giả: Mackenzie Bougoure, Iliana Magiati, Katharine McKinnon, Diana Weiting Tan, Sici Zhuang
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: England : Autism : the international journal of research and practice , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 688558

Tóm tắt

'Camouflaging' is a set of strategies used by autistic people to hide or compensate for their autistic characteristics to fit into predominantly non-autistic social environments. Many researchers have used the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) to measure camouflaging. However, there have been questions about the construct validity of the CAT-Q as a measurement of camouflaging. The present study examined the extent to which CAT-Q items were distinguishable from other theoretically and empirically related measures of social anxiety, fear of negative evaluation and autistic social traits. Autistic adults (