Table 1. Descriptive statistics and t-tests of the clinical (ASD) and control group.
| Groups | t-tests | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical | Control | t | p | Cohen`s d | |||
| M | SD | M | SD | ||||
| Age | 35.12 | 6.32 | 34.78 | 9.55 | 0.282 | 0.778 | .04 |
| AQ | |||||||
| Autism | 39.33 | 4.52 | 17.75 | 7.79 | 25.080 | <0.001 | 3.52 |
| BPQ | |||||||
| Body Awareness | 24.18 | 2.61 | 24.32 | 2.54 | 0.362 | 0.718 | .05 |
| Autonomic reactivity | 15.51 | 3.77 | 10.94 | 5.15 | 7.311 | <0.001 | 1.04 |
| TAS | |||||||
| Difficulty Describing Feelings | 18.71 | 3.79 | 13.10 | 5.01 | 9.100 | <0.001 | 1.30 |
| Difficulty Identifying Feeling | 26.58 | 5.44 | 19.93 | 6.71 | 7.776 | <0.001 | 1.13 |
| Externally-Oriented Thinking | 18.04 | 5.19 | 17.07 | 4.25 | 1.389 | 0.148 | .23 |
| Alexithymia—Total | 63.33 | 11.72 | 50.10 | 12.70 | 7.477 | <0.001 | 1.05 |
| SDQ | |||||||
| Somatoform Dissociation | 38.46 | 12.79 | 25.99 | 5.94 | 8.131 | <0.001 | 1.63 |
| DERS | |||||||
| Non-Acceptance of Emotional Responses | 16.95 | 6.50 | 14.03 | 6.01 | 3.277 | <0.001 | .46 |
| Difficulties Engaging in Goal-Directed Behavior | 18.94 | 4.64 | 14.81 | 5.04 | 5.879 | <0.001 | .82 |
| Impulse Control Difficulties | 16.46 | 5.98 | 14.25 | 5.36 | 2.736 | <0.05 | .38 |
| Lack of Emotional Awareness | 19.35 | 5.39 | 15.52 | 4.64 | 5.398 | <0.001 | .76 |
| Limited Access to Emotion Regulation Strategies | 25.99 | 6.56 | 20.19 | 7.91 | 5.444 | <0.001 | .76 |
| Lack of Emotional Clarity | 15.03 | 4.09 | 10.88 | 3.73 | 7.461 | <0.001 | 1.05 |
| Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale—Total | 112.71 | 22.32 | 89.69 | 25.98 | 6.740 | <0.001 | .99 |