On the Misapplication of the BAPQ in a Study of Autism
On the Misapplication of the BAPQ in a Study of Autism
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BAPQ 在自闭症研究中的误用
DOI：
10.1007/s10803-014-2077-y
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Stephen M. Kanne
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作者：
Takeshi Nishiyama;Stephen M. Kanne
我们开始感谢作者的深刻批评。我们同意作者的观点，即广泛自闭症表型问卷（BAPQ）（Hurley et al. 2007）不是为自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）个体开发的。值得注意的是，开发了自闭症谱系商（AQ）和社会反应量表2-成人自我报告（SRS 2-AS），以测量广泛的定量自闭症特征（QAT），包括在ASD中发现的那些，尽管阈下自闭症特征问卷（SATQ）（Kanne et al. 2012）也旨在评估一般人群中的阈下ASD特征，但并非仅在ASD受试者中。我们使用ASD样本来评估这些问卷的结构效度。从理论和经验考虑（Kanne等人，2012年），预计测量QAT的问卷与病例对照状态相关。也就是说，得分越高，他/她越有可能是ASD病例。在我们的研究中，问卷识别这种关联的能力被用作结构效度的指标。作者指出，“BAP和ASD的基础结构有很大的不同”，并描述了一个例子，“一位父亲喜欢每周六晚上去同一家餐馆”，这与重复和刻板行为（RRB）（如回声言语）有很大的不同。然而，检查其他三个QAT中的项目内容，
We begin with thanking the authors for their insightful critiques. We agree with the author that the Broad Autism Phenotype Questionnaire (BAPQ)(Hurley et al. 2007) was not developed to be administered to individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). As a matter of note, the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) and Social Responsiveness Scale2-Adult Self report (SRS2-AS) were developed to measure a wide range of quantitative autistic traits (QATs), including those found in ASD, though the Subthreshold Autism Trait Questionnaire (SATQ)(Kanne et al. 2012) also purports to assess subthreshold ASD traits in a general population, but not in the ASD subjects alone. We used the ASD sample to assess construct validity of these questionnaires. From theoretical and empirical consideration (Kanne et al. 2012), a questionnaire measuring QATs is expected to be associated with case–control status. That is, the higher one’s score, the more likely he/she is an ASD case. In our study, the ability of the questionnaire to identify such association was used as an index of construct validity.The authors stated ‘‘the constructs underlying the BAP and ASD differ substantially’’and described an example,‘‘a father who prefers to go to the same restaurant every Saturday night’’, which differs vastly from a repetitive and stereotyped behavior (RRB) such as echolalia. However, inspection of the item contents in the other three QAT