College Students' Responses to the Social Behavior of Peers with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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dc.contributorMcDonald, Kristina
dc.contributorCasper, Deborah
dc.contributor.advisorTomeny, Theodore S.
dc.contributor.authorBirnschein, Allison
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-23T14:34:09Z
dc.date.available2021-11-23T14:34:09Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractCollege students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) commonly experience strainedsocial relationships with typically developing (TD) peers. This is often attributed to the individual with ASD’s social skills deficits, which are central to a diagnosis of ASD. Yet, the manner in which TD peers receive and respond to individuals with ASD is also predictive of social interaction outcomes. The present study investigated the relation between TD college students’ perceptions of ASD and the TD peers’ willingness to interact socially with a peer with ASD. The current study hypothesized that the relation between predictor variables: TD peers’ quality of previous contact, perceptions of controllability, and perceptions of responsibility and criterion variables: attitudes about ASD and willingness to interact with individuals with ASD, would be mediated by the peers’ affective responses to individuals with ASD. Results indicated that positive affect mediated the relations between quality of previous contact and positive attitudes and willingness to interact, whereas there was no association between perceived controllability or perceived responsibility and positive affect, positive attitudes, or willingness to interact. These results demonstrate that having more positive previous experiences with individuals with ASD and more positive in-the-moment affective responses toward an individual with ASD are associated with holding more positive attitudes toward and more willingness to interact with someone with ASD.en_US
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dc.identifier.otherhttp://purl.lib.ua.edu/181486
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0003925
dc.identifier.otherBirnschein_alatus_0004M_14601
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/8157
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
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dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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dc.titleCollege Students' Responses to the Social Behavior of Peers with Autism Spectrum Disorderen_US
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. Department of Psychology
etdms.degree.disciplineClinical psychology
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.levelmaster's
etdms.degree.nameM.A.
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