Defining behavioral components of social functioning in adults with autism spectrum disorder as targets for treatment.

ABSTRACT: There is increasing recognition that adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) would benefit from treatment to improve social functioning, a key factor in adults' overall quality of life. However, the various behavioral components of social functioning (i.e., categories of behaviors underlying social functioning), including social motivation, social anxiety, social cognition, and social skills, have not all been assessed together in any sample of adults with ASD, making it difficult to know the relative levels of impairment in these various categories, the relationships among these categories, or promising targets for treatments. We hypothesized there would be significant correlations among measures within the same category, but fewer correlations of measures between categories, indicatin

SUBMITTER: Pallathra AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5890924 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature