A conceptual model of risk and protective factors for autistic burnout

April 14, 2022 7:11 PM

Non-downloadable PDF and article page. Three researchers suggest a framework "based on descriptions of autistic peoples' lived experiences".

Based on autistic adults' descriptions of their lived experiences, a Conceptual Model of Autistic Burnout (CMAB) is proposed, which describes a series of hypothesized relationships between identified risk and protective factors that may contribute to, or buffer against, autistic burnout. The theoretical framework for the CMAB is based on the Social-Relational model of disability and neurodiversity paradigm, and the Job Demands-Resources model of burnout, and Conservation of Resources theory.

(Wikipedia links added.)

posted by bixfrankonis (6 comments total)

Links lead only to the abstract, unfortunately; the full article is paywalled.
posted by heatherlogan at 7:17 PM on April 14, 2022 [1 favorite]

Huh. I don't have any problem getting that PDF link to load.
posted by bixfrankonis at 7:19 PM on April 14, 2022

Okay, I got there via an author's tweet. Try via the link they link; it's some sort of "author share" URL, which I couldn't seem to pull out because of Twitter's t.co thing.
posted by bixfrankonis at 7:24 PM on April 14, 2022 [2 favorites]

I think this is the non-paywalled author share direct link. It isn't a PDF proper but some kind of other document viewer that still serves to access a nicely-rendered copy of the paper.

Right off the bat my interest is piqued by this underlying assumption:

While aspects of a person's condition may restrict their activity, disability is socially imposed.

posted by majick at 9:34 PM on April 14, 2022 [2 favorites]

That's definitely a common approach - the social model of disability.
posted by sagc at 9:47 PM on April 14, 2022 [2 favorites]

In the paper, FWIW, it's actually the Social-Relational model, specifically, which they say "bridges" the social and medical models "conceptualizing disability as a form of social oppression dependent on the relationship between an individual's "impairments" and social and environmental influences". I like the SRM because sometimes I find adherents to the Social model don't even admit that the person legit has actual impairments. Maybe that's an actually extremist form of the Social view, but somehow I seem to run into it a lot.
posted by bixfrankonis at 6:48 PM on April 15, 2022 [2 favorites]