Cassia L. McIntyre

Simon Fraser University · Department of Psychology

Alexithymia impacts an individual’s ability to recognize and understand emotions and frequently co-occurs with autism. This study investigated the relationship between children’s alexithymia, autistic traits, and caregiver reactions to their child’s negative emotions. Caregivers of 54 autistic and 51 non-autistic children between the ages of 7 and...

The Affect Regulation Checklist (ARC) was designed to capture affect dysregulation, suppression, and reflection. Importantly, affect dysregulation has been established as a transdiagnostic mechanism underpinning many forms of psychopathology. We tested the ARC psychometric properties across clinical and community samples and through both parent‐rep...

Objectives Physical activity involvement among autistic youth and youth with an intellectual disability is significantly lower than the general population. Few studies have included youth with comorbid diagnoses of ASD and intellectual disability. Fewer studies collect information from the youth themselves. This study examined barriers and facilita...

The goal of this study was to better understand the relations between parent perceptions of social connectedness and well-being.

Alexithymia impacts an individual’s ability to recognize and understand emotions and frequently co-occurs with autism. This study investigated the relationship between children’s alexithymia, autistic traits, and caregiver reactions to their child’s negative emotions. Caregivers of 54 autistic and 51 non-autistic children between the ages of 7 and...

The Affect Regulation Checklist (ARC) was designed to capture affect dysregulation, suppression, and reflection. Importantly, affect dysregulation has been established as a transdiagnostic mechanism underpinning many forms of psychopathology. We tested the ARC psychometric properties across clinical and community samples and through both parent-rep...

The present research investigated how alexithymia and autism influence caregivers’ reactions to their child’s negative emotional expressions. It was hypothesized that autistic children would exhibit higher alexithymia and autistic traits, and that caregivers of autistic children would report greater supportive, and less restrictive/controlling, par...

The Adolescent Attachment Anxiety and Avoidance Inventory (AAAAI; Moretti et al., 2000) is a 36 item self-report measure of adolescent-parent attachment adapted from Brennan et al.’s (1998) Experiences in Close Relationships scale. Past research on the full AAAAI demonstrates good reliability, convergent and discriminant validity (Steiger & Moretti...