Assessing Expressed Emotion in Mothers of Children with Autism: The Autism-Specific Five Minute Speech Sample

Autor/inn/en	Benson, Paul R.; Daley, Dave; Karlof, Kristie L.; Robison, Dorothy
Titel	Assessing Expressed Emotion in Mothers of Children with Autism: The Autism-Specific Five Minute Speech Sample
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 15 (2011) 1, S.65-82 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/1362361309352777
Schlagwörter	Psychological Patterns; Family Environment; Parent Child Relationship; Measures (Individuals); Coding; Mothers; Children; Autism; Interrater Reliability; Validity; Correlation; Regression (Statistics); Massachusetts; Family Adaptability Cohesion Evaluation Scales; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familienmilieu; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Messdaten; Codierung; Programmierung; Mother; Mutter; Child; Kind; Kinder; Autismus; Interrater-Reliabilität; Gültigkeit; Korrelation; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Background: Expressed emotion (EE) is a measure of family emotional climate found to be predictive of symptom levels in a range of psychiatric, medical, and developmental disorders, including autism. Method: Employing data from 104 mothers of children with autism, this study examines the Autism-Specific Five Minute Speech Sample (AFMSS), a modified EE coding system based on the widely used Five Minute Speech Sample (Magana et al., 1986). Findings: With the exception of one EE component, emotional over-involvement, the revised coding system demonstrated adequate internal consistency and good to excellent inter-rater and code-recode reliability. It also demonstrated acceptable validity, based on its significant correlations with factors linked to EE in previous research. Regression analyses also indicated AFMSS-EE to be a significant predictor of child social competence, but not child problem behaviors. Discussion: While further testing is required, the AFMSS appears to be a useful method of assessing EE within the context of parenting children with autism and related disorders. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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