. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Autism Dev Disord. 2016 Apr;46(4):1368–1378. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2678-0

Table 3.

Comparison of Mean WHOQOL-BREF Domains Scores and Correlations among Adult Self-Report, Maternal Proxy-Report and Maternal Report

	Adult self-report	Maternal proxy-report	Maternal report
Mean QoL domain scores^a
Physical health	73.3 (15.7)	73.4 (18.7)	72.1 (17.6)
Psychological health	69.5 (18.8)	68.8 (18.5)	66.5 (16.1)
Social Relationships	71.2 (26.9)^*	67.2 (23.4)	60.2 (24.1)^*
Environment	77.4 (15.6)	74.5 (18.3)	75.6 (18.1)

Pearson Correlations with adult self-report WHOQOL-BREF domains
Physical health^b	--	.729^***	.486^***
Psychological health^b	--	.368^**	.161
Social Relationships^b	--	.544^***	.283^*
Environment	--	.524^***	.395^**

Intraclass Correlations (ICC) with adult self-report WHOQOL-BREF domains
Physical health	--	.721^***	.486^***
Psychological health	--	.371^**	.159
Social Relationships	--	.536^***	.260^*
Environment	--	.515^***	.392^**

p < .05,

^**

p < .01,

^***

p < .001

Standard deviations are presented in the parenthesis.

The correlation between adult self-report and maternal proxy-report was significantly greater than the correlation between adult self-report and maternal report (p < .05).