Autism spectrum disorder etiology: Lay beliefs and the role of cultural values and social axioms
| Autor: | Allan B. I. Bernardo, Charles M. Zaroff, Xin Qi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice 030506 rehabilitation Social Values Universities Autism Spectrum Disorder media_common.quotation_subject Culture Interpersonal communication Social value orientations Conformity Developmental psychology Religiosity Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Cynicism Surveys and Questionnaires Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Genetic Predisposition to Disease 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Students media_common Macau Parenting 05 social sciences Collectivism medicine.disease humanities Autism spectrum disorder Autism Female 0305 other medical science Psychology Attitude to Health Social psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Autism. 20:673-686 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7005 1362-3613 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1362361315602372 |
| Popis: | Recent research examining the explanations given by the public (i.e. lay beliefs) for autism spectrum disorder often reveals a reasonably accurate understanding of the biogenetic basis of the disorder. However, lay beliefs often manifest aspects of culture, and much of this work has been conducted in western cultures. In this study, 215 undergraduate university students in Macau, a Special Administrative Region of China, completed self-report measures assessing two beliefs concerning autism spectrum disorder etiology: (1) a belief in parental factors and (2) a belief in genetic factors. Potential correlates of lay beliefs were sought in culture-specific values, and more universal social axioms. Participants were significantly more likely to endorse parenting, relative to genetic factors, as etiological. A perceived parental etiology was predicted by values of mind–body holism. Beliefs in a parental etiology were not predicted by values assessing collectivism, conformity to norms, a belief in a family’s ability to obtain recognition through a child’s achievement, or interpersonal harmony, nor by the social axioms measured (e.g. social cynicism, reward for application, social complexity, fate control, and religiosity). Beliefs in a genetic etiology were not predicted by either culture-specific values or social axioms. Implications of the current results are discussed. |
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