Peer interaction and loneliness in high-functioning children with autism
Peer interaction and loneliness in high-functioning children with autism
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DOI：
10.1023/a:1025827427901
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发表时间：
2003-10-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Agam, G
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作者：
Bauminger, N;Shulman, C;Agam, G
在18名高功能自闭症儿童和17名典型发育儿童中检查了与同龄人的社会互动以及对孤独的理解和感受，这些儿童的智商、实际年龄、性别和母亲教育程度相匹配。观察进行了儿童的自发社会启动和反应，他们的同龄人在自然环境中，如休息和小吃时间，和儿童报告他们的理解和孤独感和社会互动。总体而言，自闭症儿童对社会交往和孤独感都有很好的理解，他们表现出高水平的社会启蒙。然而，与同龄人相比，他们只花了一半的时间与同龄人进行社交互动，而且他们与发育正常的孩子的互动次数比与另一个特殊教育的孩子的互动次数要多。尽管组间的互动频率存在差异，但两组的互动分布相似，主要表现为积极的社会行为，较少的低水平行为，以及非常罕见的消极行为。孤独症儿童的孤独感程度高于同龄人，社会交往与孤独感之间的关联性也较低，这表明他们对孤独感与社会交往之间的关系理解较差。这些研究结果的研究和实践意义进行了讨论。
Social interaction with peers and the understanding and feelings of loneliness were examined in 18 high-functioning children with autism and 17 typically developing children matched for IQ, chronological age, gender, and maternal education. Observations were conducted on children's spontaneous social initiations and responses to their peers in natural settings such as recess and snack time, and children reported on their understanding and feelings of loneliness and social interaction. Overall, children with autism revealed a good understanding of both social interaction and loneliness, and they demonstrated a high level of social initiation. However, they spent only half the time in social interactions with peers compared with their matched counterparts, and they interacted more often with a typically developing child than with another special education child. Despite the intergroup differences in frequency of interaction, a similar distribution of interactions emerged for both groups, who presented mostly positive social behaviors, fewer low-level behaviors, and very infrequent negative behaviors. Children with autism reported higher degrees of loneliness than their typical age-mates, as well as a lower association between social interaction and loneliness, suggesting their poorer understanding of the relations between loneliness and social interaction. Research and practice implications of these findings are discussed.