Investigating the Relationship between Self-Injurious Behavior, Social Deficits, and Cooccurring Behaviors in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Table 1

Correlation matrix of manifest variables used in the structural equation model.

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
(1) Frequency of SIB
(2) Severity of SIB	.565**
(3) ASD-C-C	.257*	.324**
(4) MESSY-II hostile	.031	.03	.099
(5) MESSY-II adaptive/appropriate	−.206*	−.146	−.188	.481**
(6) MESSY-II inappropriately assertive	.212*	.129	.087	.728**	.421**

^*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
^**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).