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Rokeach, Alan; Wiener, Judith – School Mental Health, 2022
The purpose of this study was to identify predictors of friendship quality in adolescents with and without ADHD. The participants were 115 adolescents (61 ADHD, 54 non-ADHD), ages 13-18. The adolescents completed questionnaires assessing the quality of their relationships with their best friends, social perspective taking, anxiety and depression.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Friendship, Clinical Diagnosis, Anxiety
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Jones, Alice P.; Happe, Francesca G. E.; Gilbert, Francesca; Burnett, Stephanie; Viding, Essi – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2010
Background: Empathy dysfunction is one of the hallmarks of psychopathy, but it is also sometimes thought to characterise autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Individuals with either condition can appear uncaring towards others. This study set out to compare and contrast directly boys with psychopathic tendencies and boys with ASD on tasks assessing…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Perspective Taking, Empathy
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van Nieuwenhuijzen, M.; Vriens, A.; Scheepmaker, M.; Smit, M.; Porton, E. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
A growing interest exists in the measuring of social adaptive functioning in children with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities (MBID), but valid instruments to measure this construct are lacking. The aim of the present study was to develop such an instrument and to examine it on its discriminate validity. In 141 children aged 8-12 years a…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Mental Retardation, Perspective Taking, Short Term Memory
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Ma, Hsen-Hsing – Behavior Modification, 2009
The aim of the present study is to demonstrate the percentage of data points exceeding the median of baseline phase (PEM) approach using data on autism treatment for illustrative purposes to compare the effectiveness of different interventions on the problem behaviors of individuals with autism. Electronic databases such as The ProQuest and Google…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intervention, Autism, Effect Size
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Marton, Imola; Wiener, Judith; Rogers, Maria; Moore, Chris; Tannock, Rosemary – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2009
This study explored empathy and social perspective taking in 8 to 12 year old children with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The sample comprised 92 children, 50 with a diagnosis of ADHD and 42 typically developing comparison children. Although children with ADHD were rated by their parents as less empathic than…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Empathy, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Child Behavior