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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 31.
Published in final edited form as: J Autism Dev Disord. 2017 Jun;47(6):1890–1895. doi: 10.1007/s10803-017-3079-3

Table 2.

Correlations between age, IQ, executive function and social measures

Age General Cognitive Ability
NEPSY-II
 Animal Sorting (n = 20) −0.03 0.76**
 Inhibition (n = 23) 0.08 0.49*
 Inhibition Switching (n = 19) −0.07 0.76**
DAS-II (n = 22)
 Working Memory 0.16 0.75**
BRIEF (n = 21)
 Inhibit −0.21 −0.06
 Shift −0.09 −0.37
 Emotional Control 0.10 −0.21
 Initiation −0.08 −0.54*
 Working Memory −0.26 −0.43
 Planning and Organization −0.36 −0.56**
 Organization of Materials −0.34 −0.24
 Monitor −0.18 −0.42
Social Functioning (n = 23)
 Friend nominations 0.02 −0.16
 Rejections −0.44* −0.16
 Solitary Play 0.39 −0.04
 Joint Engagement 0.05 −0.12
*

p ≥ .05

**

p ≥ .01