Table 4.

Test–retest reliability and internal consistency of the Chinese SRS

	Test–retest	Cronbach’s alpha
		ASD			TD
		Male	Female	All	Male	Female	All
Social awareness	0.81	0.428	0.277	0.410	0.320	0.283	0.316
Social cognition	0.87	0.698	0.620	0.689	0.603	0.556	0.580
Social communication	0.93	0.816	0.819	0.816	0.804	0.726	0.774
Social motivation	0.88	0.690	0.709	0.694	0.678	0.613	0.648
Autistic mannerisms	0.94	0.787	0.803	0.788	0.779	0.711	0.750
Total scale	0.96	0.917	0.922	0.917	0.906	0.871	0.892