Table 5.

Hierarchical multivariate linear regression analyses for predicting social affect score among autistic children

	b	SE	β	t	F Change	R2 change	R2
Model 1					1.67		0.02
Sex	−1.5	0.83	−0.14	−1.83
Grade	−0.05	0.21	0.02	0.21
Model 2					21.99**	0.11	0.13
Sex	−1.57	0.78	−0.15	−2.02*
Grade	0.28	0.21	0.1	1.33
OWLS – Oral Expression	−0.4	0.09	−0.35	−4.69**
Model 3					2.61	0.01	0.15
Sex	−1.55	0.78	−0.14	−1.99*
Grade	0.25	0.21	0.09	1.2
OWLS- Oral Expression	−0.37	0.09	−.32***	−4.28**
Generalized Anxiety Score	−0.04	0.02	−0.12	−1.61

Note.

^*p < 0.05.

^**p < 0.01.

Sex = sex assigned at birth (female =1, male = 0)