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。
