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- Title
Do We Need Multiple Informants When Assessing Autistic Traits? The Degree of Report Bias on Offspring, Self, and Spouse Ratings.
- Authors
Möricke, Esmé; Buitelaar, Jan; Rommelse, Nanda
- Abstract
This study focused on the degree of report bias in assessing autistic traits. Both parents of 124 preschoolers completed the Social Communication Questionnaire and the Autism-spectrum Quotient. Acceptable agreement existed between mother and father reports of children's mean scores of autistic traits, but interrater reliability for rank-order correlations was only fair. No evidence was found for report bias regarding parent-offspring autistic traits. However, adult autistic ratings were strongly biased: spouse-ratings were higher than self-ratings, correlations were only fair when both parents reported about the same person, and resemblance was higher for reports from the same person than for spouses' separate self-reports. It is advisable to involve multiple informants when assessing autistic traits, and to use procedural and/or statistical remedies to control for report bias.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; DIAGNOSIS of autism; AUTISM; CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; STATISTICAL correlation; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; SELF-evaluation; SPOUSES; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); DATA analysis; INTER-observer reliability; RESEARCH bias; CONTENT mining; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; SYMPTOMS; CHILDREN
- Publication
Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 2016, Vol 46, Issue 1, p164
- ISSN
0162-3257
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10803-015-2562-y