Emotional Understanding, Cooperation, and Social Behavior in High-Functioning Children with Autism

Autor/inn/en	Downs, Andrew; Smith, Tristram
Titel	Emotional Understanding, Cooperation, and Social Behavior in High-Functioning Children with Autism
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 34 (2004) 6, S.625-635 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-004-5284-0
Schlagwörter	Affective Behavior; Cooperation; Social Behavior; Children; Autism; Developmental Delays; Personality Traits; Attention Deficit Disorders; Hyperactivity; Comparative Analysis; Interpersonal Competence; Emotional Response + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Co-operation; Kooperation; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Child; Kind; Kinder; Autismus; Entwicklungsverzögerung; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; ADHS; Aufmerksamkeits-Defizit-Hyperaktivitäts-Störung; Aufmerksamkeitsstörung; Hyperaktivität; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Emotionales Verhalten
Abstract	In contrast to typically developing children, children with autism rarely exhibit cooperative social behavior. To examine whether this problem reflects global developmental delays or autism-specific deficits, the present study compared cooperation, emotional understanding, personality characteristics, and social behavior of 10 children with autism who had average IQ to those of 16 children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and 10 typically developing children. In cooperative behavior, level of emotional understanding, and aloof behavior, the autism group outperformed the ADHD/ODD group and did not differ significantly from typically developing children. However, the autism group showed worse emotion recognition and more active-but-odd behavior than the other groups. The results indicate that high-functioning children with autism can develop cooperative social behavior and advanced theory of mind abilities, but continue to show deficits in identifying emotions and displaying socially appropriate behavior. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10