Table 3.
Count, Percentage, and Overall Scores on the Unidimensional Relationship Closeness Scale, and Total and Subscale Scores on the Awareness of Social Inference Test by Group
| Group | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rated individual | Autistic women (n = 19) | Neurotypical women (n = 19) | ||||
| UCRS score | UCRS score | |||||
| Rated, n (%) | M (SD), range | Above norm, n (%) | Rated, n (%) | M (SD), range | Above norm, n (%) | |
| Friend | 10 (52.6) | 5.18 (1.12)* | 7 (36.8) | 6 (31.6) | 5.57 (0.66) | 5 (26.3) |
| 3.00–6.75 | 4.58–6.58 | |||||
| Partner | 9 (47.4) | 5.50 (1.34)* | 6 (31.6) | 13 (68.4) | 6.38 (0.58) | 9 (47.4) |
| 2.08–6.58 | 5.17–7.00 | |||||
| TASIT Total | 45.26 (6.85)** | 58.74 (2.62) | ||||
| (max = 64) | 33–56 | 55–62 | ||||
| TASIT Lie | 25.32 (3.09)** | 28.84 (1.77) | ||||
| (max = 32) | 21–31 | 26–31 | ||||
| TASIT Sarcasm | 19.95 (4.60)** | 29.89 (1.24) | ||||
| (max = 32) | 12–27 | 27–32 | ||||
| TASIT Do | 12.05 (2.27)** | 15.95 (0.23) | ||||
| (max = 16) | 8–16 | 15–16 | ||||
| TASIT Say | 11.42 (2.19)** | 15.11 (1.05) | ||||
| (max = 16) | 8–15 | 13–16 | ||||
| TASIT Think | 13.32 (3.11) | 14.68 (1.64) | ||||
| (max = 16) | 4–16 | 11–16 | ||||
| TASIT Feel | 10.53 (2.77)** | 14.21 (1.44) | ||||
| (max = 16) | 6–15 | 11–16 | ||||
Note: This table shows how many autistic and neurotypical women rated friends versus partners on the UCRS,2,4 and the percentage of those relationships that were scored as above the population closeness norms (6.00 for romantic relationships, 5.02 for friendships24) for those respective categories.
max, maximum; TASIT, The Awareness of Social Inference Test; UCRS, Unidimensional Relationship Closeness Scale.
*
denotes significance at the 0.05 level, **denotes significance at the 0.01 level.