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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Autism Res. 2013 May 20;6(5):10.1002/aur.1302. doi: 10.1002/aur.1302

Table 3.

Data Illustrating the Interaction of Diagnostic Group, IQ Group and Social Anxiety Group on Social Orienting Collapsed Across Cue Conditions in the Social Virtual Public Speaking Task

Avatar Position
Sub-Group Center Behind First Second Third
Lower Social Anxiety
Lower IQ HFASD 72.7 (31.6) 35.8 (14.2) 25.4 (10.8) 21.4 (12.8) 10.9 (7.4)
Lower IQ TD 49.7 (19.4) 33.3 (11.7) 27.1 (13.5) 21. 8(12.8) 6.4 (4.7)
Higher IQ HFASD 50.7 (18.8) 39.4 (11.3) 32.5 (12.3) 23.0 (16.0)** 11.9 (8.6)
Higher IQ TD 55.8 (12.9) 40.0 (14.1) 35.5 (12.3) 30.0 (12.4) 11.6 (7.0)
Higher Social Anxiety
Lower IQ HFASD 36.4 (14.5)** 24.2 (10.3)** 16.2 (11.9)** 10.3 (9.1)** 3.3 (4.0)
Lower IQ TD 53.2 (17.2) 39.2 (21.5) 37.9 (21.4) 31.3 (18.0) 9.1 (5.8)
Higher IQ HFASD 60.4 (27.0) 29.9 (14.7)* 24.7 (15.1)** 22.1 (18.9) 10.2 (9.9)
Higher IQ TD 52.7 (24.9) 39.2 (18.6) 33.8 (16.3) 26.0 (12.7) 10.1 (6.4)

Marginal means with Full Scale IQ as the covariate.

*

Significant Diagnostic Group differences in orienting to specific avatar positions within IQ and Social Anxiety subgroups p < .05

**

p < .01.