Table 1 Autistic and non-autistic individuals demographic information, clinical and cognitive measures.
Variables | Autistic participants (n = 22) | Non-autistic participants (n = 22) | Statistics | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | (SD) | Mean | (SD) | d | Pr(ASD > C) | |
Demographic information | ||||||
Gender | 20 men and 2 women | 21 men and 1 woman | 0.257 | |||
Age | 29 | (10.08) | 28.10 | (10.46) | 0.09 | 0.655 |
Years of education | 13 | (2.83) | 13.41 | (2.44) | − 0.16 | 0.325 |
Clinical measures | ||||||
AQ | 33.28 | (8.08) | 13.94 | (7.34) | 9.67 | > .999 |
EQ | 21.22 | (13.00) | 45.28 | (13.08) | − 1.84 | < .001 |
BDI | 14.94 | (11.67) | 4.68 | (3.83) | 1.32 | 0.998 |
STAI | ||||||
State | 46.89 | (11.64) | 39.77 | (11.61) | 0.61 | 0.987 |
Trait | 54.94 | (14.73) | 38.86 | (7.75) | 1.43 | > .999 |
SES | 26,39 | (7.14) | 30.82 | (4.40) | − 0.77 | 0.022 |
SoC | 102.33 | (35.08) | 145.23 | (18.91) | − 1.59 | < .001 |
Cognitive measures | ||||||
fNART | 108.17 | (5.68) | 108.11 | (6.24) | 0.01 | 0.832 |
Verbal fluency | ||||||
Lexical | 0.13 | (0.78) | 0.39 | (0.70) | 0.35 | 0.139 |
Semantic | 0.28 | (0.77) | 0.28 | (0.85) | 0.00 | 0.502 |
Trail making test (B-A time) | 0.69 | (1.24) | -0.24 | (0.84) | 0.89 | 0.998 |
