Table 2.

Intercorrelations between parental stress and self-regulation problems in ASD Children (N = 75).

Variable	Mean	SD	Parental Stress	Parent–Child Dysfunction	Difficult Child	Defense Responses	Total Parental Stress	Self-Regulation Scores in Children
Parental stress	25.2	4.8	–	0.486	0.394	0.738 **	0.704 **	0.297
Parent–Child Dysfunction	26.0	5.8	0.486	–	0.592 *	0.392	0.651 **	0.292
Difficult child	25.0	5.8	0.394	0.592 *	–	0.623 *	0.618 **	0.761 **
Defense Responses	17.3	3.3	0.738 **	0.392	0.623 *	–	0.675 **	0.661 *
Total Parental Stress	87.0	17.2	0.704 **	0.651*	0.618 **	0.675 **	–	0.713 **
Self-regulation scores in children	29.7	5.7	0.297	0.292	0.661 *	0.349 **	0.713 **	–

Note: ASD = autism spectrum disorders, ** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed), * Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).