Table 1.
Summary of Participant Demographics
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p value of pairwise differences |
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| Demographic | ASD (n =50) | DD (n =25) | TD (n =50) | F value | DD-ASD | TD-ASD | |||
| Parent’s education in years completed | |||||||||
| Mother (M, SD ) | 15.48 | 2.08 | 15.22 | 2.47 | 15.19 | 2.25 | 0.24 | .959 | .883 |
| Father (M, SD ) | 15.73 | 2.52 | 15.52 | 2.71 | 15.40 | 2.57 | 0.22 | .986 | .883 |
| Parent’s age at child’s birth in years | |||||||||
| Mother (M, SD ) | 31.19 | 4.93 | 31.94 | 6.37 | 31.24 | 5.56 | 0.13 | .943 | .999 |
| Father (M, SD ) | 32.99 | 6.82 | 35.91 | 5.50 | 33.71 | 6.04 | 1.95 | .162 | .929 |
| Males (%) | 86.0 | 76.0 | 86.0 | ||||||
| First born (%) | 44.0 | 36.0 | 38.0 | ||||||
| Ethnicity (%) | |||||||||
| Caucasian | 72.0 | 68.0 | 84.0 | ||||||
| African American | 16.0 | 20.0 | 14.0 | ||||||
| Hispanic | 8.0 | 8.0 | 2.0 | ||||||
| Asian | 4.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
Note: Degrees of freedom are Welch corrected when necessary for violation of homogeneity of variance as assessed by Levene’s test.