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Publication Date: 2016-Jan
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Do We Need Multiple Informants When Assessing Autistic Traits? The Degree of Report Bias on Offspring, Self, and Spouse Ratings
Möricke, Esmé; Buitelaar, Jan K.; Rommelse, Nanda N. J.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v46 n1 p164-175 Jan 2016
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.
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Spouses, Correlation, Interrater Reliability, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Statistical Analysis, Preschool Children, Parent Attitudes, Scores, Mothers, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship, Genetics, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Questionnaires
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