Empathic Accuracy and Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Young Adults With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder

This study investigated whether young adults with ASD (n = 29) had impairments in Cognitive Empathy (CE), Affective Empathy (AE) or Empathic Accuracy (EA; the ability to track changes in others’ thoughts and feelings) compared to typically-developing individuals (n = 31) using the Empathic Accuracy...

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Published in:Journal of autism and developmental disorders 2022-05, Vol.52 (5), p.2004-2018
Main Authors: McKenzie, K., Russell, A., Golm, D., Fairchild, G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Affective Behavior
Autism
Autism Spectrum Disorder - psychology
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Child and School Psychology
Cognition
Cognitive Ability
Comparative Analysis
Demographic aspects
Emotional intelligence
Emotional regulation
Emotional Response
Emotions
Empathy
Humans
Indexing
Interpersonal Relationship
Neurosciences
Original Paper
Pediatrics
Perspective Taking
Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Psychological Patterns
Psychology
Public Health
Reactivity
Self Report
Social aspects
Task Analysis
Young Adult
Young Adults
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Summary:This study investigated whether young adults with ASD (n = 29) had impairments in Cognitive Empathy (CE), Affective Empathy (AE) or Empathic Accuracy (EA; the ability to track changes in others’ thoughts and feelings) compared to typically-developing individuals (n = 31) using the Empathic Accuracy Task (EAT), which involves watching narrators recollecting emotionally-charged autobiographical events. Participants provided continuous ratings of the narrators’ emotional intensity (indexing EA), labelled the emotions displayed (CE) and reported whether they shared the depicted emotions (AE). The ASD group showed deficits in EA for anger but did not differ from typically-developing participants in CE or AE on the EAT. The ASD group also reported lower CE (Perspective Taking) and AE (Empathic Concern) on the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, a self-report questionnaire.
ISSN:0162-3257
1573-3432
DOI:10.1007/s10803-021-05093-7