Do Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders Help Other People With Autism Spectrum Disorders? An Investigation of Empathy and Helping Motivation in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder.

• Material Type: 文書・図像類
• Title: Do Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders Help Other People With Autism Spectrum Disorders? An Investigation of Empathy and Helping Motivation in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Author/Editor: Komeda, Hidetsugu; Kosaka, Hirotaka; Fujioka, Toru; Jung, Minyoung; Okazawa, Hidehiko
• Author Heading: Komeda, Hidetsugu; Kosaka, Hirotaka; Fujioka, Toru; Jung, Minyoung; Okazawa, Hidehiko
• Publication Date: 2019-06-04
• Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2019-06-04
• Periodical title: Frontiers in Psychiatry
• No. or year of volume/issue: 10
• Volume: 10
• ISSN (Periodical Title): ISSN : 1664-0640
• Text Language Code: eng
• Subject Heading: alexithymia; autism spectrum disorders; empathy; helping; social cognition; social skill
• Target Audience: 一般
• Note (General): Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often lack cognitive empathy, so they experience difficulty in empathizing with others. Although deficits in social abilities, such as empathy, have been demonstrated in previous studies, most stimuli used in previous studies were developed for typically developing (TD) individuals. Previous studies have demonstrated that adults with and without ASD display empathetic responses toward similar others. Adults with ASD (n = 22, 7 women and 15 men, mean age = 26.8 years) and intelligence- and age-matched TD adults (n = 20, 8 women and 12 men, mean age = 24.0 years) participated in the study. They were instructed to read 24 stories (12 stories featured protagonists with characteristics of ASD, and the other 12 featured TD protagonists) and respond to the following questions: "How did the protagonist feel?" and "Would you help if the protagonist were in trouble?" After controlling for alexithymia and AQ based on multiple regression analyses, individuals with ASD empathize with other people who have ASD and are motivated to help other people with ASD. Additionally, social skills and attention to detail were associated with decreased helping motivation for story characters with ASD. Social skills among AQ subscales (social skills, attention switching, attention to detail, communication, and imagination) were the most potent predictor of decreased helping motivation. These findings suggest that the reason why individuals with ASD are considered to have limited cognitive empathy and helping motivation could be related to alexithymia and the lack of social skills and attention to detail, which are related to atypical perception.
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• Related Material (DOI): 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00376
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• Original Data Provider (Database): 福井大学 : 福井大学学術機関リポジトリ