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The role of gender in the perception of autism symptom severity and future behavioral development
| Title: | The role of gender in the perception of autism symptom severity and future behavioral development |
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| Authors: | Philippine Geelhand, Philippe Bernard, Olivier Klein, Bob van Tiel, Mikhail Kissine |
| Source: | Molecular Autism, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2019) |
| Publisher Information: | BMC, 2019. |
| Publication Year: | 2019 |
| Collection: | LCC:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system |
| Subject Terms: | Sex ratio, Gender bias, Concern, Caregiver, Adolescence, Symptom severity, Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system, RC346-429 |
| More Details: | Abstract Background Increasing attention is being paid to the higher prevalence of boys with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and to the implications of this ratio discrepancy on our understanding of autism in girls. One recent avenue of research has focused on caregiver’s concern, suggesting that autism might present differently in boys and girls. One unexplored factor related to concerns on child development is whether socio-cultural factors such as gender-related expectations influence the evaluation of symptom severity and predictions about future behavioral development. Methods The latter concerns were the focus of the present study and were explored by investigating laypeople’s judgment of the severity of autism symptoms using an online parent role-playing paradigm, in which participants were asked to rate vignettes depicting the behaviors of a child in different everyday life scenarios. The child’s gender and the severity of ASD symptoms were manipulated to examine the effect of gender on the perception of symptom severity. Results Results suggest that there are no gender differences in perceived symptom severity and associated degree of concern for 5-year-old boys and girls but that there is a gender difference in perceived future atypicality at 15 years old, with boys being rated as more likely to be perceived as atypical by their peers at that age than girls. Conclusions Investigating parent’s cognition about their child’s future behavioral development can provide additional information regarding delayed diagnosis of autistic girls. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 2040-2392 76148688 |
| Relation: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13229-019-0266-4; https://doaj.org/toc/2040-2392 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13229-019-0266-4 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/451dcb08e7a0461f98e7614868803b7c |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.451dcb08e7a0461f98e7614868803b7c |
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| ISSN: | 20402392 76148688 |
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| DOI: | 10.1186/s13229-019-0266-4 |
| Published in: | Molecular Autism |
| Language: | English |