Murray Kim, Johnston Kate, Cunnane Helen, Kerr Charlotte, Spain Debbie, Gillan Nicola, Hammond Neil, Murphy Declan, Happé Francesca
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, SE5 8AF, London.
Bradford Dementia Group, School of Health Studies, University of Bradford, Richmond Road, Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK.
Autism Res. 2017 Jun;10(6):1120-1132. doi: 10.1002/aur.1744. Epub 2017 Mar 11.
Real-life social processing abilities of adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) can be hard to capture in lab-based experimental tasks. A novel measure of social cognition, the "Strange Stories Film task' (SSFt), was designed to overcome limitations of available measures in the field. Brief films were made based on the scenarios from the Strange Stories task (Happé) and designed to capture the subtle social-cognitive difficulties observed in ASD adults. Twenty neurotypical adults were recruited to pilot the new measure. A final test set was produced and administered to a group of 20 adults with ASD and 20 matched controls, alongside established social cognition tasks and questionnaire measures of empathy, alexithymia and ASD traits. The SSFt was more effective than existing measures at differentiating the ASD group from the control group. In the ASD group, the SSFt was associated with the Strange Stories task. The SSFt is a potentially useful tool to identify social cognitive dis/abilities in ASD, with preliminary evidence of adequate convergent validity. Future research directions are discussed. Autism Res 2017. © 2017 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Autism Res 2017, 10: 1120-1132. © 2017 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）成年人在现实生活中的社交处理能力很难在基于实验室的实验任务中得以体现。一种新的社会认知测量方法，即“奇异故事电影任务”（SSFt），旨在克服该领域现有测量方法的局限性。简短的电影是根据奇异故事任务（哈佩）中的场景制作的，旨在捕捉在患有ASD的成年人中观察到的微妙的社会认知困难。招募了20名神经典型成年人来试用这一新测量方法。最终测试集制作完成，并施用于一组20名患有ASD的成年人和20名匹配的对照组，同时还进行了既定的社会认知任务以及关于同理心、述情障碍和ASD特征的问卷调查。在区分ASD组和对照组方面，SSFt比现有测量方法更有效。在ASD组中，SSFt与奇异故事任务相关。SSFt是一种识别ASD中社会认知能力缺陷/能力的潜在有用工具，并有初步证据表明其具有足够的收敛效度。文中讨论了未来的研究方向。《自闭症研究》2017年。©2017国际自闭症研究协会，威利期刊公司。《自闭症研究》2017年，10：1120 - 1132。©2017国际自闭症研究协会，威利期刊公司。
