Table 2. Lifetime impairments in social reciprocity domain and items.
Latino (n = 48) | White (n = 96) | F | Partial η2 | |||
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M | SD | M | SD | |||
Social reciprocity domain | 25.25 | .63 | 25.27 | .44 | .00 | .00 |
Direct gaze | 1.91 | .09 | 1.63 | .06 | 6.78** | .05 |
Social smiling | 1.66 | .10 | 1.65 | .07 | .01 | .00 |
Range of facial expressions | 1.78 | .10 | 1.59 | .07 | 2.69 | .02 |
Interest in people | 1.90 | .08 | 1.75 | .05 | 2.23 | .02 |
Response to approaches | 1.64 | .09 | 1.54 | .06 | .87 | .01 |
Showing and directing (attention) | 1.89 | .07 | 1.81 | .05 | .82 | .01 |
Offering to share | 1.86 | .06 | 1.93 | .04 | .87 | .01 |
Seeking to share enjoy | 1.83 | .08 | 1.68 | .06 | 2.30 | .02 |
Use of other's body | 1.25 | .13 | 1.30 | .09 | .12 | .00 |
Offers comfort | 1.79 | .08 | 1.82 | .05 | .12 | .00 |
Quality of social overtures | 1.74 | .08 | 1.77 | .05 | .06 | .00 |
Inappropriate facial expressions | 1.09 | .10 | 1.33 | .07 | 3.40† | .02 |
Appropriateness of social overtures | 1.72 | .06 | 1.90 | .04 | 5.34* | .04 |
Friendships | 1.30 | .11 | 1.71 | .08 | 8.89** | .06 |
Imaginative play with peers | 1.90 | .06 | 1.85 | .04 | .40 | .00 |
Adjusted for maternal education attainment and child residential status
p < .01;
p < .05;
p < .10