Table 3:

Correlations among measures of social motivation for combined sample (above diagonal in grey) and ASD males only (below diagonal).

	SRS-2 Social Motivation	DMQ Social Persistence with Adults	DMQ Social Persistence with Children	WSQ Appropriate	WSQ Active	WSQ Passive	WSQ Aloof
SRS-2 Social Motivation	.	−.286* CI: −.52 – .01	−.473*** CI: −.66 – −.23	−.560*** CI: −.72 – −.34	.470*** CI: .23 – .66	.545*** CI: .32 – .71	.400** CI: .15 – .61
DMQ Social Persistence with Adults	−.612** CI: −.84 – −.19	.	.237 CI: −.04 – .48	.468* CI: .22 – .66	−.491*** CI: −.68 – −.25	−.532*** CI: −.70 – −.30	−.396** CI: −.61 – −.14
DMQ Social Persistence with Children	−.438 CI: −.77 – .07	−.113 CI: −.58 – .41	.	.515*** CI: .28 – .69	−.459* CI: −.65 – −.21	−.289* CI: −.52 – −.02	−.457* CI: −.65 – −.21
WSQ Appropriate	−.515* CI: −.80 – −.05	.624* CI: .19 – .86	.227 CI: −.30 – .65	.	−.792*** CI: −.88 – −.67	−.674*** CI: −.80 – −.49	−.766*** CI: −.86 – −.63
WSQ Active	.461 CI: −.03 – .77	−.378 CI: −.74 – .15	.047 CI: −.46 – .53	−.369 CI: −.72 – .14	.	.603*** CI: .40 – .75	.649*** CI: .46 – .78
WSQ Passive	.679** CI: .29 – .87	−.712** CI: −.89 – −.34	−.204 CI: −.64 – .33	−.374 CI: −.73 – .13	.210 CI: −.30 – .63	.	.644*** CI: .45 – .78
WSQ Aloof	.517* CI: .05 – .80	−.557* CI: −.83 – −.08	−.126 CI: −.59 – .39	−.469 CI: −.78 – .02	.278 CI: −.23 – .67	.637** CI: .23 – .86	.

Notes:

^*p<.05.

^**p<.01.

^***p<.001.

SRS-2 – Social Responsiveness Scale, 2^nd Edition (Constantino, 2012). DMQ – Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaire, 17^th Edition (Morgan, Busch-Rossnagel, Barrett, & Wang, 1997). WSQ – Wing Subgroups Questionnaire (Castelloe & Dawson, 1993). CI – 95% confidence interval.