Gillberg C, Schaumann H
J Autism Dev Disord. 1982 Sep;12(3):223-8. doi: 10.1007/BF01531368.
Twenty infantile autistic children, constituting what is likely to be the majority of the total population of autistic children born in the years 1962 through 1973 and living in Göteborg, Sweden, by the end of 1978, were compared with a random population sample of 59 7-year-old Göteborg children with regard to social class. Two different social classification systems were used, one that takes account only of the father's occupation and one that includes several other parameters. The distributions of social class were almost identical in the infantile autism group and in the random group. With respect to some other social circumstances the two groups were very similar. Thus, the present results lend no support for the view that autistic children tend to come from high social classes.
1978年底，对20名患有婴儿自闭症的儿童进行了社会阶层方面的比较，这些儿童可能占1962年至1973年出生于瑞典哥德堡且当时仍居住在当地的自闭症儿童总数的大部分。研究将他们与59名来自哥德堡的7岁儿童的随机样本进行了对比。采用了两种不同的社会分类系统，一种仅考虑父亲的职业，另一种则包含其他几个参数。婴儿自闭症组和随机组的社会阶层分布几乎相同。在其他一些社会环境方面，两组也非常相似。因此，目前的研究结果并不支持自闭症儿童往往来自高社会阶层这一观点。
