Theory of Mind Indexes the Broader Autism Phenotype in Siblings of Children with Autism at School Age

Table 2

Descriptive statistics by group.

	ASD	HR-Other	HR-TD	LR-TD
ADOS CSS	7.18 (0.98)	5.00 (2.63)	1.75 (0.94)	1.59 (1.18)	50.66	<0.001	0.70
ToM scaled score	6.67 (3.17)	9.09 (3.65)	11.13 (3.72)	12.36 (2.85)	7.84	<0.001	0.27
CELF-4 Core Language SS	90.00 (22.23)	93.17 (18.82)	108.04 (11.95)	109.73 (10.65)	7.76	<0.001	0.27
Griffith cognitive empathy	0.63 (5.73)	6.25 (8.61)	9.55 (7.39)	8.84 (6.29)	4.23	0.009	0.19
VABS ABC	86.82 (15.17)	93.63 (18.95)	102.09 (25.62)	105.87 (12.41)	2.41	0.08	0.12
DAS NVIQ	105.27 (12.91)	104.92 (16.67)	107.71 (13.43)	104.32 (9.66)	0.17	0.92	0.08
Social reference to examiner (%time)	76.63 (31.81)	79.10 (30.31)	69.75 (32.77)	72.00 (25.18)	0.69	0.56	0.03
Griffith affective empathy	6.13 (9.30)	9.67 (8.18)	9.64 (7.56)	6.42 (11.29)	0.612	0.61	0.03

Note. Standard deviations appear in parentheses below means. Analyses of variance were covaried by age.
ASD > LR-TD; HR-Other > LR-TD; ASD < LR-TD; HR-Other < LR-TD.