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Social competence with an unfamiliar peer in children and adolescents with high functioning autism: Measurement and individual differences

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The curvilinear association between social anxiety and reciprocity highlights the importance of examining nonlinear relations in individuals with HFA, and emphasizes that discrete profiles of social anxiety in individualswith HFA may necessitate different treatment options.
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This article is published in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders.The article was published on 2015-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 39 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social competence & Social anxiety.

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Observed Social Competence in At-Risk Children: Associations with Informant Reports of Children’s Behaviours and Maternal Childhood Characteristics

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the associations between children's observed social competence and informant ratings of children's social competence, and found that higher levels of maternal childhood aggression or social withdrawal predicted less child engagement in socially competent behaviours.
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Quality of Life among Mothers of High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (HFASD)Adolescents

TL;DR: Identifying specific domains of QoL among mothers of high-functioning autistic adolescents would improve the mothers’ resilience in raising their children with HFASD, according to thematic qualitative analysis.

Sammenhengen mellom sosial fungering og sosial angst hos barn, ungdom og voksne med autisme

Nils Kaland
TL;DR: For instance, Kogan et al. as discussed by the authors showed that 1.5 prosent of the autistic patients in the US had a negative effect on their self-efficacy, i the form of anxiety, depression, and self-criticism.
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Linking Peer-Mediated Interventions to Address Conversational Difficulties in Adolescents With Autism

TL;DR: This research presents a novel and scalable approach called “Smart Talking” that addresses the challenges that adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face in engaging in reciprocal or balanced conversation.
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Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised: a revised version of a diagnostic interview for caregivers of individuals with possible pervasive developmental disorders

TL;DR: The revised interview has been reorganized, shortened, modified to be appropriate for children with mental ages from about 18 months into adulthood and linked to ICD-10 and DSM-IV criteria.
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Principal component analysis

TL;DR: Principal component analysis (PCA) as discussed by the authors is a multivariate technique that analyzes a data table in which observations are described by several inter-correlated quantitative dependent variables, and its goal is to extract the important information from the table, to represent it as a set of new orthogonal variables called principal components, and display the pattern of similarity of the observations and of the variables as points in maps.
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The ''Reading the Mind in the Eyes'' Test Revised Version: A Study with Normal Adults, and Adults with Asperger Syndrome or High-functioning Autism

TL;DR: The Revised Eyes Test has improved power to detect subtle individual differences in social sensitivity and was inversely correlated with the Autism Spectrum Quotient (the AQ), a measure of autistic traits in adults of normal intelligence.
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Computing Inter-Rater Reliability for Observational Data: An Overview and Tutorial

TL;DR: This paper provides an overview of methodological issues related to the assessment of IRR with a focus on study design, selection of appropriate statistics, and the computation, interpretation, and reporting of some commonly-used IRR statistics.
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