Symptômes de TSA chez l'adulte en relation avec l'utilisation excessive d'Internet : Les rôles des symptômes du TDAH et de l'humeur négative

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Les troubles du spectre de l'autisme (TSA) et le trouble déficitaire de l'attention avec hyperactivité (TDAH) ont été associés à une utilisation excessive d'Internet, également connue sous le nom d'addiction à Internet. Le TDAH étant la comorbidité la plus fréquente dans les TSA, la présente étude a examiné la possibilité que les symptômes du TDAH, et/ou les facteurs de trait et d'humeur liés aux TSA, au TDAH et à la cyberdépendance, puissent expliquer l'association entre les TSA et les symptômes de cyberdépendance. 

Un échantillon non clinique de jeunes adultes, composé de 248 hommes et femmes utilisant Internet, a rempli des auto-questionnaires sur les symptômes de TSA et de TDAH, l'alexithymie, l'impulsivité, les humeurs négatives et les symptômes d'addiction à Internet. 

Les scores des mesures des symptômes des TSA et du TDAH étaient normalement distribués, ce qui est cohérent avec l'idée que les troubles correspondants représentent des extrémités extrêmes et nuisibles de la distribution de leurs symptômes dans la population. La régression hiérarchique suivie d'une analyse de cheminement a indiqué que la relation entre les TSA et les symptômes de dépendance à Internet était entièrement médiatisée par les symptômes du TDAH et les humeurs négatives. En outre, la relation entre le TDAH et les symptômes de dépendance à l'internet était partiellement médiatisée par l'impulsivité et les humeurs négatives. 

Les résultats actuels mettent en évidence les rôles médiateurs des symptômes du TDAH et des humeurs négatives dans l'association entre les TSA et les symptômes de dépendance à l'internet.

 

. 2024 Jul 15.

doi: 10.1002/ijop.13220. Online ahead of print.

Adult symptoms of ASD in relation to excessive internet use: The roles of ADHD symptoms and negative mood

Michael Lyvers  ¹ , Aliah Luarca  ¹ , Grace Priestly  ¹ , Fred Arne Thorberg  ¹

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• PMID: 39009805
• DOI: 10.1002/ijop.13220

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have been reportedly associated with excessive internet use, also known as internet addiction. As ADHD is the most common comorbidity in ASD, the present study examined the possibility that ADHD symptoms, and/or trait and mood factors linked to ASD, ADHD and internet addiction, could account for the association of ASD with internet addiction symptoms. A nonclinical young adult sample of 248 internet using men and women completed self-report measures of ASD and ADHD symptoms, alexithymia, impulsivity, negative moods and internet addiction symptoms. Scores on the ASD and ADHD symptom measures were normally distributed, consistent with the notion that the corresponding disorders represent extreme, impairing ends of population distributions of their symptoms. Hierarchical regression followed by path analysis indicated that the relationship between ASD and internet addiction symptoms was fully mediated by ADHD symptoms and negative moods. Further, the relationship between ADHD and internet addiction symptoms was partially mediated by impulsivity and negative moods. Present findings point to the mediating roles of ADHD symptoms and negative moods in the association of ASD with internet addiction symptoms.

Keywords: ADHD; ASD; Alexithymia; Impulsivity; Internet addiction.

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