Table 3.
Emotional, cognitive and sensory variables in autistic and neurotypical adolescents; mean (s.d.), range, group effect statistic and effect size
| Variables | Autistic adolescents (n=61) | Neurotypical adolescents (n=62) | ||||
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| Mean(SD) | Range | Mean(SD) | Range | t-test/W a | d/r a | |
| Alexithymia | 60.65(11.24) | 38-80 | 60.55(12.66) | 34-91 | 0.05 | 0.01 |
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| Adaptive ER | 54.53(14.24) | 32-96 | 54.95(12.38) | 35-90 | 1816a | .03a |
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| Maladaptive ER | 41.39(10.94) | 22-70 | 40.79(11.49) | 19-67 | 0.30 | 0.05 |
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| Hypersensitivity | 81.69(22.74) | 31-127 | 82.68(21.10) | 43-134 | -0.25 | 0.05 |
| Hyposensitivity | 75.20(16.45) | 35-111 | 81.15(12.27) | 55-105 | -2.27* | 0.41 |
| IU-Child | 37.51(11.01) | 12-60 | 36.97(10.36) | 13-59 | 0.28 | 0.05 |
| IU-Parentb | 42.54(9.92) | 20-57 | 25.18(17.96) | 0-60 | 2769a *** | .49a |
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| Interoceptive accuracye | 30.95(28.63) | 0-97.95 | 38.95(31.12) | 0-95.92 | 1565a | .14a |
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| Confidenced | 49.96(30.48) | 0-100 | 41.86(27.48) | 0-100 | 1.54 | 0.28 |
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| Interoceptive sensibility | 107.48(34.11) | 51-189 | 127.82(35.53) | 59-207 | -3.24** | 0.58 |
| Interoceptive insightd | 33.36(27.75) | 0-100 | 22.23(20.10) | 0-93 | 2279a * | .21a |
| Time accuracyd | 77.26(13.91) | 5.5-93.89 | 77.08(14.57) | 38.5-96.19 | 1794a | .03a |
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| Time confidencec | 68.16(19.6) | 27.5-100 | 66.82(15.64) | 32.5-100 | 0.58 | 0.11 |
Notes:ER=Emotion Regulation, IU=Intolerance of Uncertainty. t=t-test statistic, d=Cohen’s d, a=Wilcoxon test statistic and correlation coefficient effect size. b: n=119, c: n=120, d: n=121, e: n=122. p<.05*, .01**, .001***