Table 6.
Significant correlations between measures of parenting sense of competence and wellbeing and autism spectrum disorder symptom severity for the whole sample and by levels of socioeconomic status
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| Full sample | Sample by AUSEI06 | Sample by IRSAD | Full sample | Sample by AUSEI06 | Sample by IRSAD |
| PSOC satisfaction | |||||
| Negative: SCQ communication, r(99) = -0.270, P = 0.007 | Top third of SES: Negative: SCQ total, r(60) = -0.317, P = 0.013 | Middle third of SES: Negative: SCQ communication, r(39) = -0.457, P = 0.003 | |||
| Negative: SCQ total, r(100) = -0.264, P = 0.008 | Negative: SCQ communication, r(59) = -0.300, P = 0.021 | Top third of SES: Negative: SCQ communication, r(17) = -0.545, P = 0.024 | |||
| Negative: SCQ social, r(100) =-0.226, = 0.024 | Negative: SCQ RRBI, r(17) = -0.553, P = 0.021 | ||||
| Positive: VABS - adaptive, r(90) = 0.235, P = 0.026 | Negative: SCQ total, r(17) = -0.572, P = 0.016 | ||||
| PSOC efficacy | |||||
| Negative: SCQ social, r(100) = -0.291, P = 0.003 | Top third of SES: Positive: VABS - adaptive, r(56) = 0.360, P = 0.006 | Top third of SES: Negative: SCQ communication, r(17) = -0.719, P = 0.001 | Top third of SES: Negative: VABS - maladaptive, r(37) = -0.461, P = 0.004 | Bottom third of SES: Negative: VABS - maladaptive, r(23) = -0.487, P = 0.018 | |
| Negative: SCQ RRSB, r(100) = -0.307, P = 0.002 | Negative: SCQ total, r(60) = -0.374, P = 0.003 | Negative: SCQ social, r(17) = -0.609, P = 0.010 | Negative: SCQ total, r(39) = -0.449, P = 0.004 | ||
| Negative: SCQ total, r(100) = -0.348, P < 0.001 | Negative: SCQ Social, r(60) = -0.304, P = 0.018 | Negative: SCQ Total, r(17) = -0.660, P = 0.004 | |||
| Positive: VABS - adaptive, r(90) = 0.230, P = 0.029 | Negative: SCQ RRBI, r(60) = -0.312, P = 0.015 | ||||
| PSOC interest | |||||
| Positive: IRSAD, r(106) = 0.278, P = 0.004 | Middle third of SES: Negative: SCQ communication, r(39) = -0.364, P = 0.023 | ||||
| Top third of SES: Negative: SCQ communication, r(17) = -0.553, P = 0.021 | |||||
| DASS depression | |||||
| Negative: VABS - adaptive, r(85) = -0.258, P = 0.017 | Top third of SES: Negative: VABS - adaptive, r(14) = -0.664, P = 0.010 | Negative: AUSEI06, r(52) = -0.323, P = 0.020 | |||
| Positive: SCQ total, r(95) = 0.238, P = 0.020 | |||||
| DASS anxiety | |||||
| Top third of SES: Positive: VABS - maladaptive, r(14) = 0.644, P = 0.013 | Negative: AUSEI06, r(52) = -0.316, P = 0.023 | ||||
| DASS stress | |||||
| Top third of SES: Positive: ADOS comparison (severity) score, r(14) = 0.635, P = 0.015 | Negative: AUSEI06, r(53) = -0.305, P = 0.026 | ||||
The value in parenthesis after “r” is the sample size for the analysis (n). PSOC: Parenting Sense of Competence; DASS: Depression Anxiety Stress Scale; SCQ: Social Communication Questionnaire; VABS: Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales; IRSAD: Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage; AUESI06: Australian Socioeconomic Index 2006; SES: Socioeconomic status.