自闭症和非自闭症青少年之间的同情心:告知效应的重要性
Tslil Simantov1, Florina Uzefovsky1
1Psychology department, Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
概括
自闭症青少年报告的同情体验不同于同龄人,但他们识别情绪的能力相似. 父母对自闭症青少年低同理心的看法与沟通差异有关,而不是实际的同理心缺陷.
科学领域:
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 临床心理学 临床心理学
背景情况:
- 共感,包括认知和情感方面,对于社会互动至关重要.
- 以前的研究表明自闭症个体的同情心较低,但青少年的表现仍然不清楚.
- 自我和家长关于自闭症个人的同情心的报告之间存在差异.
研究的目的:
- 调查自闭症青少年在显著发育变化期间的同情心.
- 在自闭症和非自闭症青少年中,将同情的自我感知与父母的感知进行比较.
- 检查自闭症特征与同情感知差异之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 对10-16岁的青少年 (59名自闭症) 和他们的父母 (157名) 进行了同情心调查问卷.
- 自闭症特征评估和阅读眼睛中的思维测试 (RMET) 用于心理状态识别.
- 长度数据收集超过6个月,以评估稳定性.
主要成果:
- 自闭症青少年报告了较低的同情关注和更高的个人痛苦.
- 父母认为自闭症青少年的整体同情能力较低.
- 自闭症和非自闭症青少年之间的RMET表现是可比的.
- 同理心报告中的差异是由家长报告的自闭症特征解释的,特别是沟通困难.
- 在为期六个月的研究期间,同理心水平保持稳定.
结论:
- 这些发现挑战了自闭症个体普遍较低同情心的概念.
- 信息效应,特别是沟通差异,可能会解释感知到的同理心差距.
- 自闭症青少年的同理心是稳定的,在某些方面与神经类型的同龄人相比.
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