When Father Doesn't Know Best: Selective Disagreement Between Self-Report and Informant Report of the Broad Autism Phenotype in Parents of a Child with Autism

Autism Research

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 731-739

  Sasson, Noah J ^a   Faso, Daniel J ^a   Parlier, Morgan ^b   Daniels, Julie L ^b,c   Piven, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Broad autism phenotype; Clinical psychiatry; Clinical psychology; Informant reports; Personality assessment; Personality traits; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTISM ASSESSMENT; BROAD AUTISM PHENOTYPE; BROAD AUTISM PHENOTYPE QUESTIONNAIRE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATHER; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; INFORMANT REPORT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MOTHER; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRAGMATIC LANGUAGE; PREVALENCE; RIGID PERSONALITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ALOOFNESS; SOCIAL COGNITION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; COMPLICATION; FATHERS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MOTHERS; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; MOTHERS; PARENTS; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84918594734     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.1425     Document Type: Article

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