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Published in final edited form as: Res Autism Spectr Disord. 2019 Oct 15;69:101453. doi: 10.1016/j.rasd.2019.101453

Table 7.

Assessing Predictors of Personal Narrative Writing

Predictor	β	t	Sig.	Model	Adjusted R²
Syntactic Diversity
Diagnostic Group	.05	0.39	0.70	F(4, 39) = 14.45, p = .0001	.56
Chronological Age^*	.45	4.24	0.001
Core Language Score	.15	1.15	0.26
Theory of Mind^*	.47	2.83	0.007
Grammar Errors	β	t	Sig.	Model	Adjusted R²
Diagnostic Group	−.31	−1.60	0.12	F(4, 39) = 1.61, p = .19	.06
Chronological Age	−.14	−0.93	0.35
Core Language Score	.02	0.08	0.94
Theory of Mind	−.08	−0.32	0.75
Quality	β	t	Sig.	Model	Adjusted R²
Diagnostic Group	.05	0.36	0.72	F(4, 39) = 12.28, p = .0001	.55
Chronological Age^*	.36	3.37	0.002
Core Language Score	.21	1.56	0.12
Theory of Mind^*	.48	2.91	0.006

Note.

Significant predictor within the model.