Article: Comparing semi-autistic traits in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder and normal children’s parents

By: Maryam Sadegi and Zeynab Khanjani

ABSTRACT

The present study has been carried out by the aim of Comparing autistic like traits in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder and normal children’s parents. This is a causal-comparative research. The statistical population of the study includes all the parents of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder under 18 years old in 2014. The number of 160 individuals of both parents (80 mothers and 80 fathers) of children with autism spectrum disorder have been selected and have been matched with 160 individuals of both parents (80 mothers and 80 fathers) of normal children regarding age, gender and economic condition. Child Symptom Inventory, parents’ form (CSI, 1994) has been used to definite diagnosis of children’s autism. Adult Autism Quotient Spectrum (AAQS, 2001) has been applied to assess parents’ autism like traits. Research data analysis has been done using multi-variate analysis of variance, MANOVA and independent t-test. The research findings showed that parents of autistic children have more symptoms in general autism scale and deficiency in social, relational and imagination skill. But in sub-scales of attention to details and replacement, no difference has been obtained between two groups. Both mothers and fathers
of autistic children have significant difference in general scale of autism and subscales of imagination and attention replacement. Such that autistic children’s fathers reported more symptoms in general scale and subscales of imagination and attention replacement. But in subscales of social, relational skills and attention to the details, there was no difference between both fathers and mothers’ groups. Based on the research findings, parents of autistic children have more autistic like traits and in comparison to mothers, fathers have more autistic like traits. Keywords: parents’ autistic like traits, autistic children, normal children, autism spectrum disorder

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