Table 2 Correlations between social preference and child’s social behavior, after controlling for gender and PDQ, in the ASD and TD group.

From: Reduced preference for social rewards in a novel tablet based task in young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

SOCIAL IMAGE

 

e/c

Smile

Facial

Pointing

Vocal

ASD

TD

ASD

TD

ASD

TD

ASD

TD

ASD

TD

Socratio Spearman’s rho

0.43

0.22

0.40

0.18

0.26

0.09

0.49

−0.26

0.46

0.10

p-value

0.002**

0.035*

0.004**

0.06

0.048*

0.24

0.001**

0.014*

0.001**

0.19

NON SOCIAL IMAGE

Socratio Spearman’s rho

0.14

−0.02

0.20

−0.17

0.26

−0.07

0.29

−0.35

−0.37

−0.09

p-value

0.19

0.42

0.11

0.08

0.048*

0.28

0.03*

0.001**

0.008**

0.22

  1. Socratio = social/total button presses, e/c = number of eye contact with the experimenter, smile = number of smiles directed to the image, facial = number of facial expressions directed to the image, pointing = number of pointing gestures to the image, vocal = number of vocalizations during image presentation.
  2. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, one-tailed.
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