Insight into informant discrepancies regarding psychosexual functioning of adolescents with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder

Linda P. Dekker; Kirsten Visser; Esther J.M. van der Vegt; Athanasios Maras; Jan van der Ende; Nouchka T. Tick; Frank C. Verhulst; Kirstin Greaves-Lord

doi:10.1111/jora.12539

Insight into informant discrepancies regarding psychosexual functioning of adolescents with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder

Linda P. Dekker, Kirsten Visser^*, Esther J.M. van der Vegt, Athanasios Maras, Jan van der Ende, Nouchka T. Tick, Frank C. Verhulst, Kirstin Greaves-Lord

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Abstract

The private nature of psychosexual functioning leads adolescents and their parents to have different perspectives, which highlights studying parent–child informant discrepancies in this domain. We investigated informant discrepancy in psychosexual functioning, using the self-report and parent report versions of the Teen Transition Inventory (TTI), of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; 136 parent–child dyads) compared to adolescents from the general population (GP; 70 parent–child dyads). Significantly larger informant discrepancies exist in ASD dyads than GP dyads in most domains of psychosexual functioning, except for Body image, Sexual behavior, and Confidence in the future. It is important to use and pay attention to both informants, as discrepancies are relevant for both research and clinical practice regarding psychosexual functioning.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	487-501
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Research on Adolescence
Volume	30
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12539
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2020

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This research was supported by a grant from ZonMw, the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, within the program ?The sexual health of youngsters? (project number: 124270004) and the Sophia Children?s Hospital Fund (Grant Number 617), and Yulius, a large mental health organization in the southwest of the Netherlands.

Funding Information:
This research was supported by a grant from ZonMw, the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, within the program “The sexual health of youngsters” (project number: 124270004) and the Sophia Children’s Hospital Fund (Grant Number 617), and Yulius, a large mental health organization in the southwest of the Netherlands.

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© 2019 Yulius. Journal of Research on Adolescence published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Research on Adolescence.

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