Is the Autism-Spectrum Quotient a Valid Measure of Traits Associated with the Autism Spectrum? A Rasch Validation in Adults with and Without Autism Spectrum Disorders
| Autor: | Helen Y N Lindner, Lars-Olov Lundqvist |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Autism-spectrum quotient
Adult Psychometrics Autism Spectrum Disorder Population Test validity Neuropsychological Tests Autistic traits Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Rating scale Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Adults Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences education Sweden education.field_of_study Original Paper Rasch model Cultural Characteristics 05 social sciences Autism-Spectrum Quotient medicine.disease Phenotype Autism spectrum disorder Case-Control Studies Autism Female Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 050104 developmental & child psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders |
| ISSN: | 1573-3432 0162-3257 |
| Popis: | The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) is among the most widely used scales assessing autistic traits in the general population. However, some aspects of the AQ are questionable. To test its scale properties, the AQ was translated into Swedish, and data were collected from 349 adults, 130 with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 219 without ASD, and analysed with Rasch. Several scale properties of the AQ were satisfactory but it did not meet the criterion of a unidimensional measure of autistic traits. The Rasch analysis showed that the 50-item AQ could be reduced to a 12-item subset with little loss of explanatory power, with the potential to efficiently measure the degree to which adults with and without ASD show autistic traits. |
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