Assessing Advanced Theory of Mind in Children and Adolescents with High-Functioning Autism: The Spanish Version of the Stories of Everyday Life.
Most individuals with autism spectrum disorders often fail in tasks of theory of mind (ToM). However, those with normal intellectual functioning known as high functioning ASD (HF-ASD) sometimes succeed in mentalizing inferences. Some tools have been developed to more accurately test their ToM abilities. The aims of this study were to examine the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of Stories of Everyday Life Test (SEL) in a sample of 29 children and adolescents with HF-ASD and 25 typically developing controls and to compare their performance. The Spanish-SEL demonstrated good internal consistency, strong convergence with clinical severity and another ToM test, and adequate discriminant validity from intellectual capability and age, identifying the condition of 70 % of participants.
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic, Villarroel 170, 08026, Barcelona, Spain. slera@clinic.ub.es.
Sara
S
Lera-Miguel
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic, Villarroel 170, 08026, Barcelona, Spain.
Mireia
M
Rosa
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic, Villarroel 170, 08026, Barcelona, Spain.|Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Ministerio de Sanidad, Madrid, Spain.
Olga
O
Puig
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lillehammer University College, Postbox 952, 2604, Lillehammer, Norway.
Nils
N
Kaland
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic, Villarroel 170, 08026, Barcelona, Spain.|Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Ministerio de Sanidad, Madrid, Spain.|Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.|Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Luisa
L
Lázaro
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic, Villarroel 170, 08026, Barcelona, Spain.|Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Ministerio de Sanidad, Madrid, Spain.|Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.|Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Josefina
J
Castro-Formieles
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic, Villarroel 170, 08026, Barcelona, Spain.|Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Ministerio de Sanidad, Madrid, Spain.
Rosa
R
Calvo
D000293:Adolescent; D000067877:Autism Spectrum Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D013030:Spain; D056345:Theory of Mind; D014177:Translations
Adolescent; Child; High functioning autism spectrum disorders; Theory of mind; Validation study