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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Autism Res. 2023 Nov 21;17(1):55–65. doi: 10.1002/aur.3054

Table 4:

Correlations between child self-report and caregiver-report of social motivation by social context for the full sample and by group

Social Context
Peers Adults
Full sample r = .38, p = .006
95% CI [.12, .59]
N = 52		 r = .56, p < .001
95% CI [.33, .73]
N = 49
ASD Group r = .03, p = .897
95% CI [−.45, .51]
N = 17		 r = .53, p = .029
95% CI [.07, .81]
N = 17
NT Group r = .32, p = .061
95% CI [−.02, .59]
N = 35		 r = .55, p = .001
95% CI [.25, .75]
N = 32
Fisher r-to-z (two-tailed) z = 0.94, p = .347 z = 0.09, p = .928

Note: Social motivation in peer and adult social context assessed with Persistence with Peers and Persistence with Adults subscales, respectively, from the Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaire, 17th Edition (Morgan et al., 2009).