. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 6.

Published in final edited form as: J Autism Dev Disord. 2018 Nov;48(11):3702–3710. doi: 10.1007/s10803-017-3180-7

Table 2.

Participant characteristics

	Talks about death never or sometimes (n = 83)		Talks about death often or very often (n = 24)		Full sample (n = 107)
	n (%)	M±SD	n (%)	M±SD	n (%)	M±SD
Age		13.57 ± 2.28		13.82 ± 2.24		13.63 ± 2.26
10–12 years	36 (43%)		9 (38%)		45 (42%)
13–18 years	47 (57%)		15 (63%)		62 (58%)
Male	62 (75%)		20 (83%)		82 (77%)
White	75 (90%)		22 (92%)		97 (91%)
NVIQ		94.65 ± 20.70		98.33 ± 20.23		95.48 ± 20.56
<70	8 (10%)		2 (8%)		10 (9%)
70–84	22 (27%)		4 (20%)		26 (24%)
85+	53 (64%)		18 (75%)		71 (66%)
Mood disorder	21 (25%)		10 (42%)		31 (29%)
Anxiety disorder	31 (38%)		14 (58%)		45 (42%)
DBD	34 (41%)		8 (33%)		42 (39%)
ADHD	36 (43%)		7 (29%)		43 (40%)