Table 5.

Linear regression analysis for AQ Communication subscale score.

Variable	B	SE	β	R2	ΔR2
Step 1
Age	0.39	0.23	0.20	0.04
Sex	0.07	0.77	0.10
Step 2
Age	0.56	0.22	0.29*	0.17*	0.13*
Sex	1.08	0.75	0.16
Autism diagnosis	1.64	0.51	0.37**
T1 LSAS	−0.18	0.26	−0.08
Step 3				. 20*	0.02
Age	0.57	0.22	0.30*
Sex	1.03	0.75	0.15
Autism diagnosis	1.98	0.63	0.44**
T1 LSAS	−0.06	0.27	−0.02
T1 BDI-II	−0.30	0.28	0.13
T1 Y-BOCS II Comp	−0.15	0.32	−0.07
Step 4				0.28**	0.09**
Age	0.67	0.21	0.35*
Sex	0.93	0.71	0.14
Autism diagnosis	2.56	0.64	0.59**
T1 LSAS	−0.02	0.26	−0.00
T1 BDI-II	−0.34	0.27	−0.15
T1 Y-BOCS-II Comp	0.41	0.36	0.20
Autism diagnosis * T1 Y-BOCS-II Comp	−1.67	0.59	−0.48**

T1 LSAS, Time 1 Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale total score; T1 BDI–II, Time 1 Beck Depression Inventory II; T1 Y-BOCS-II Comp, Time 1 Yale–Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale II Compulsion score. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.