Ratcliffe Belinda, Wong Michelle, Dossetor David, Hayes Susan
Department of Psychological Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia,
J Autism Dev Disord. 2015 Aug;45(8):2487-96. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2411-z.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is associated with social skills deficits and co-occurring mental health difficulties. ASD frequently co-occurs with Intellectual Disability (ID). There is scant literature exploring the association between social skills and mental health in children with ASD, with or without ID. Participants were 292 children aged six to 13 with ASD (217 without ID; 76 with Mild ID). Parents and teachers rated social skills and mental health using standardised questionnaires. Greater mental health difficulties were associated with greater social responsiveness difficulties and poorer social skills across the sample. Effect sizes were large. Social skills explained a significant proportion of the variance in mental health scores across the sample. The study has important implications for treatment and future research.
自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）与社交技能缺陷以及同时出现的心理健康问题有关。ASD常与智力残疾（ID）同时出现。关于有无ID的ASD儿童社交技能与心理健康之间关联的文献很少。研究参与者为292名6至13岁的ASD儿童（217名无ID；76名有轻度ID）。父母和教师使用标准化问卷对社交技能和心理健康进行评分。在整个样本中，更大的心理健康问题与更高的社交反应困难和更差的社交技能相关联。效应量很大。社交技能在整个样本的心理健康得分差异中占很大比例。该研究对治疗和未来研究具有重要意义。
