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20-09-2020 | Original Paper

Cognitive and Social Cognitive Self-assessment in Autistic Adults

Auteurs: Kilee M. DeBrabander, Amy E. Pinkham, Robert A. Ackerman, Desiree R. Jones, Noah J. Sasson

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 7/2021

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Abstract

An aspect of metacognition associated with broader functional abilities in several clinical conditions, but previously unexamined in autism, is self-assessment (i.e., the ability to accurately self-evaluate one’s own performance). We compared self-assessment between 37 autistic adults without intellectual disability to 39 non-autistic (NA) controls on a series of three general cognitive and three social cognitive tasks. Whereas autistic adults and NA adults did not differ in their self-assessment accuracy on general cognitive tasks, they did on social cognitive tasks, with autistic adults demonstrating lower accuracy. The direction of their inaccuracy was variable (i.e., both over and underestimation), and self-assessment was largely unrelated to their level of social functioning. Over versus underestimation may have different functional implications, and warrants future investigation.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Cognitive and Social Cognitive Self-assessment in Autistic Adults
Auteurs
Kilee M. DeBrabander
Amy E. Pinkham
Robert A. Ackerman
Desiree R. Jones
Noah J. Sasson
Publicatiedatum
20-09-2020
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 7/2021
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04722-x

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