Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Child Dev. 2023 May;94(3):659-673. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13889. Epub 2022 Dec 27.
While social difficulties in autism are well-established, questions remain regarding whether these represent challenges in acquiring or performing such skills, reduced social strengths, or a unique distribution across these domains (i.e., social profile). This study empirically derived social profiles of 211 autistic and non-autistic youth (M = 13.50; Autistic N = 150; Male N = 151; 85.3% White). Assessments occurred between 2016 and 2020. Results showed that autistic youth exhibit significantly more social acquisition and performance deficits and fewer strengths than nonautistic youth (ds = -.44 to .65). Performance deficits were most-and acquisition deficits least-prominent within autistic profiles, potentially implicating longstanding theoretical models of social difficulties in autism, and supporting new, idiographic approaches for conceptualizing, assessing, and treating social challenges.
自闭症患者的社交困难是众所周知的,但仍存在一些问题,例如这些问题是代表在获取或表现这些技能方面存在挑战,还是社交能力较弱,或者是在这些领域(即社交特征)中存在独特的分布。本研究实证得出了 211 名自闭症和非自闭症青年的社交特征(M = 13.50;自闭症 N = 150;男性 N = 151;85.3%为白人)。评估于 2016 年至 2020 年进行。结果表明,自闭症青年表现出明显更多的社交获取和表现缺陷,以及较少的优势,而非自闭症青年(ds = -.44 至.65)。在自闭症特征中,表现缺陷最为明显,而获取缺陷则最不明显,这可能暗示了自闭症社交困难的长期理论模型,并支持了新的、个体化的方法来概念化、评估和治疗社交挑战。