Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit, Department of Psychiatry, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Avda. Reyes Católicos, 2, 28040, Madrid, Spain.
Psychiatry Research Department, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY, USA.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2019 Mar;49(3):1048-1061. doi: 10.1007/s10803-018-3814-4.
We conducted a meta-analysis of 18 studies to establish whether a relation exists between Reading the Mind in the Eye Test (RMET) performance and intelligence quotient (IQ) in individuals diagnosed with autism-spectrum disorders (ASD) and controls, taking into account relevant characteristics such as age, gender, and autism quotient. Our findings indicate that RMET performance was better in controls compared with those diagnosed with ASD. We found that RMET performance is dependent on full and verbal IQ and age in controls. However, RMET performance is negatively correlated with performance IQ in individuals diagnosed with ASD. These results suggest that the methodology applied by ASD when taking the RMET is different from control individuals and might depend less on verbal abilities.
我们对 18 项研究进行了荟萃分析，以确定在被诊断为自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的个体和对照组中，阅读心理之眼测试（RMET）的表现与智商（IQ）之间是否存在关系，并考虑了年龄、性别和自闭症商等相关特征。我们的研究结果表明，对照组的 RMET 表现优于被诊断为 ASD 的个体。我们发现，在对照组中，RMET 表现与全智商和言语智商以及年龄有关。然而，在被诊断为 ASD 的个体中，RMET 表现与操作智商呈负相关。这些结果表明，ASD 个体在进行 RMET 时所采用的方法与对照组个体不同，可能较少依赖言语能力。
