A Study on Anxiety of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
This paper aims to study the anxiety state of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders(ASD)and the factors af-fecting their anxiety through an investigation on the children's parents.170 parents are selected,by convenient sampling method,to complete the basic information questionnaire,Preschool Anxiety Scale(PAS),Repetitive Behavior Questionnaire(RBQ-2),Beck Anxiety Inventory(BAI),Egna Minnen Barndoms Uppfostran(EMBU-P),and Parental Stress Index-Short Form(PSI-SF)in order to assess their children's anxiety characteristics and influencing factors.The results show that:The anxiety level of children with ASD is significantly higher than that of other children(p≤0.01).The related factors of anxiety level of children with ASD include children's age,degree of disorder,repeated behavior level,family economic status,parents'anxiety level,parents'pressure on children rearing and refusal parenting style(p≤0.05).The predictors of anxiety level of children with ASD are chil-dren's repeated behavior level and parents'pressure on rearing(p≤0.01).