Sedgewick, F;
Hill, V;
Yates, R;
Pickering, L;
Pellicano, E;
(2016)
Gender Differences in the Social Motivation and Friendship Experiences of Autistic and Non-autistic Adolescents.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
, 46
(4)
pp. 1297-1306.
10.1007/s10803-015-2669-1.
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Abstract
This mixed-methods study examined gender differences in the social motivation and friendship experiences of adolescent boys and girls with autism relative to those without autism, all educated within special education settings. Autistic girls showed similar social motivation and friendship quality to non-autistic girls, while autistic boys reported having both qualitatively different friendships and less motivation for social contact relative to boys without autism and to girls with and without autism. Semi-structured interviews with the adolescents corroborated these findings, with one exception: autistic girls reported high levels of relational aggression within their friendships, suggesting that girls on the autism spectrum in particular may struggle with identifying and dealing with conflict in their social lives.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Gender Differences in the Social Motivation and Friendship Experiences of Autistic and Non-autistic Adolescents |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10803-015-2669-1 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2669-1 |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2015. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Autism Gender Girls Friendship Peer relationships Social motivation |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475314 |
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