Development of the Stanford Social Dimensions Scale: initial validation in autism spectrum disorder and in neurotypicals.

ABSTRACT: Background:The aim of this paper was to provide an initial validation of a newly developed parent questionnaire-the Stanford Social Dimensions Scale (SSDS), designed to capture individual differences across several key social dimensions including social motivation in children and adolescents with and without psychiatric disorders. Methods:The initial validation sample was comprised of parents of 175 individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (35 females, 140 males; M age = 7.19 years, SD age = 3.96) and the replication sample consisted of 624 parents of children who were either typically developing or presented with a range of neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders (302 females, 322 males; M age = 11.49 years, SDage = 4.48). Parents from both samples completed the SSDS and

SUBMITTER: Phillips JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6921422 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature