Objectives:To investigate the frequency of autistic traits (ATs) among adolescents with obesity and their association with uncontrolled/ emotional eating, internet addiction, and emotion recognition/regulation skills.Materials and Methods: Among 77 adolescents with obesity (62.3% girls, 16.2±2.1 years), ATs were assessed using the social responsiveness scale (SRS) completed by their parents.Participants filled the Three-factor eating questionnaire (TFE), internet addiction test (IAT), and emotion regulation difficulties scale (DERS).Participants' emotion recognition skill was evaluated by DANVA facial emotion recognition test-2 (DANVA-2) and reading mind in the eyes test (RMET). Results:In total, 15.6% of adolescents with obesity had mild ATs, 24.7% had moderate ATs, and 18.1% had severe ATs.Compared with the ATs group (SRS t-score <60, n=32), the ATs+ group (SRS t-score ≥60, n=45) had significantly higher standardized body mass index (BMI) (U=438,000, p=0.007),TFE-uncontrolled eating [t(74)=2.138,p=0.01],TFE-emotional eating (U=454,500, p=0.006),DERS-Total [t(74)=3.790,
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Kafalı et al. (2024) studied this question.