Table 3.

Emotion and behavior questionnaires in autistic children and their typically developing peers.

	Autistic children	Typically developing peers
	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Significance level
Short sensory profile
Sensory reactivity	157.8 (27.918)	141.9 (28.16)	0.022
Tactile sensitivity	31.1 (4.37)	28.6 (5.57)	0.038
Taste/smell sensitivity	16.6 (5.12)	14.1 (6.00)	0.070
Movement sensitivity	13.3 (2.73)	11.5 (3.77)	0.026
Under-responsive	28.67 (6.22)	26.8 (6.48)	0.216
Auditory filtering	21.1 (6.95)	20.9 (5.71)	0.910
Low energy	26.5 (5.58)	22.5 (6.97)	0.011
Visual/auditory sensitivity	20.6 (4.84)	17.7 (4.83)	0.015
Emotion Regulation Checklist
Emotion regulation	3.2 (0.65)	3.2 (0.75)	0.807
Emotion lability	1.7 (0.67)	1.8 (0.60)	0.673
Child Behavior Checklist
Anxious–depressed	5.4 (3.87)	3.9 (4.23)	0.146
Withdrawn–depressed	4.8 (3.04)	1.9 (2.46)	0.001
Somatic complaints	1.7 (1.69)	0.8 (1.19)	0.026
Social problems	7.1 (4.47)	2.8 (2.76)	0.001
Thought problems	6.4 (4.56)	1.2 (1.65)	0.001
Attention problems	7.0 (3.31)	2.6 (2.47)	0.001
Rule-breaking behavior	4.5 (3.85)	2.1 (1.90)	0.003
Aggressive behavior	8.9 (6.30)	4.7 (5.71)	0.007
Externalizing problems	10.7 (7.49)	6.5 (6.68)	0.017
Internalizing problems	12.7 (9.05)	6.7 (7.04)	0.004