Table 2.
Employability, First Impressions, and Endorsement Ratings for Autistic and Non-Autistic Candidates Across Disclosure Conditions
| Scale | Disclosure condition | n | Autistic |
Non-autistic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M (SD) | M (SD) | |||
| Candidate Employability Scale | None | 86 | 43.77 (9.65) | 49.85 (8.68) |
| Brief | 82 | 47.09 (9.48) | 51.76 (8.45) | |
| Detailed | 87 | 47.82 (9.05) | 50.54 (8.09) | |
| First Impressions Scale for Autism | None | 86 | 25.58 (3.48) | 27.41 (3.12) |
| Brief | 82 | 26.94 (3.40) | 28.46 (3.46) | |
| Detailed | 87 | 27.55 (3.77) | 28.60 (3.25) | |
| None | 86 | 4.09 (1.41) | 4.97 (1.14) | |
| Endorsement Scale | Brief | 82 | 4.63 (1.42) | 5.38 (1.12) |
| Detailed | 87 | 4.78 (1.18) | 5.15 (1.01) |
Scores for the Candidate Employability Scale could range between 10 and 70. Scores for the First Impressions Scale could range between 10 and 40. Endorsement ratings could range between 0 and 7.