The assessment of autistic traits with the Autism Spectrum Quotient: Contribution of the French version to its construct validity

Kempenaers, Chantal; Braun, Stéphanie; Delvaux, Nicole; Linkowski, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.erap.2017.09.001

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“…Between the two sessions, at a time of their choosing, subjects completed an online battery of psychometric scales comprising previously validated French translations of the following 8 questionnaires: Weiss Functional Impairment Rating Scale (WFRIS) for Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), with subscales for different domains including family, work, school, life skills, self-concept, social, and risk-taking 74 ; French translation 75 State-trait anxiety inventory, form Y (STAI-Y) for clinical anxiety, with subscales for state and trait anxiety 65 ; French translation 76 Revised Life Orientation Test (LOT-R) for optimism 77 ; French translation 78 ; Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) for impulsivity 79 ; French translation 80 ; Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS) for anhedonia 81 ; French translation 82 ; Autism quotient (AQ) for autism spectrum 83 ; French translation 84 Schizotypal personality questionnaire (SPQ) for schizophrenic symptomatology 85 ; French translation 86 Big Five Personality Inventory (BIG 5), measuring the “Big 5” personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism 87 ; French translation 88 . The scales were presented in a fixed order, as listed above, across all subjects, on the Gorilla Experiment Platform (https://gorilla.sc/). The French translations of the questionnaires are available on github <ADD link>.…”

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“…• Autism quotient (AQ) for autism spectrum 83 ; French translation 84 • Schizotypal personality questionnaire (SPQ) for schizophrenic symptomatology 85 ; French translation 86 • Big Five Personality Inventory (BIG 5), measuring the "Big 5" personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism 87 ; French translation 88 .…”

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Multiple and subject-specific roles of uncertainty in reward-guided decision-making

Paunov,

L’Hôtellier,

Guo

et al. 2024

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Decision-making in noisy, changing, and partially observable environments entails a basic tradeoff between immediate reward and longer-term information gain, known as the exploration-exploitation dilemma. Computationally, an effective way to balance this tradeoff is by leveraging uncertainty to guide exploration. Yet, in humans, empirical findings are mixed, from suggesting uncertainty-seeking to indifference and avoidance. In a novel bandit task that better captures uncertainty-driven behavior, we find multiple roles for uncertainty in human choices. First, stable and psychologically meaningful individual differences in uncertainty preferences actually range from seeking to avoidance, which can manifest as null group-level effects. Second, uncertainty modulates the use of basic decision heuristics that imperfectly exploit immediate rewards: a repetition bias and win-stay-lose-shift heuristic. These heuristics interact with uncertainty, favoring heuristic choices under higher uncertainty. These results, highlighting the rich and varied structure of reward-based choice, are a step to understanding its functional basis and dysfunction in psychopathology.

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Section: Psychometric Scalesmentioning

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Multiple and subject-specific roles of uncertainty in reward-guided decision-making

Paunov,

L’Hôtellier,

Guo

et al. 2024

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“…Previous studies found a high internal consistency for the overall AQ score with a Cronbach's alpha between 0.72 and 0.79 (Hoekstra et al, 2008;Ruzich et al, 2015;Stevenson and Hart, 2017). We used the French version of the AQ (Kempenaers et al, 2017).…”

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What Makes the Detection of Movement Different Within the Autistic Traits Spectrum? Evidence From the Audiovisual Depth Paradigm

2023

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Atypical sensory processing is now considered a diagnostic feature of autism. Although multisensory integration (MSI) may have cascading effects on the development of higher-level skills such as socio-communicative functioning, there is a clear lack of understanding of how autistic individuals integrate multiple sensory inputs. Multisensory dynamic information is a more ecological construct than static stimuli, reflecting naturalistic sensory experiences given that our environment involves moving stimulation of more than one sensory modality at a time. In particular, depth movement informs about crucial social (approaching to interact) and non-social (avoiding threats/collisions) information. As autistic characteristics are distributed on a spectrum over clinical and general populations, our work aimed to explore the multisensory integration of depth cues in the autistic personality spectrum, using a go/no-go detection task. The autistic profile of 38 participants from the general population was assessed using questionnaires extensively used in the literature. Participants performed a detection task of auditory and/or visual depth moving stimuli compared to static stimuli. We found that subjects with high-autistic traits overreacted to depth movement and exhibited faster reaction times to audiovisual cues, particularly when the audiovisual stimuli were looming and/or were presented at a fast speed. These results provide evidence of sensory particularities in people with high-autistic traits and suggest that low-level stages of multisensory integration could operate differently all along the autistic personality spectrum.

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“…However, it is worth noting that none of the participants in our study reached such a high score on the AQ global scale. We used the French version of the AQ (Kempenaers et al, 2017).…”

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Social Impairment in the Autistic Spectrum: Real-Life Versus Online Perceived Social Skills

Poulain,

Cappe,

Batty

2023

Adv Neurodev Disord

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Objectives:While socio-communicative difficulties are identified as a core diagnostic criterion for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), there is growing evidence that social difficulties could be context-dependent and could be overcome by the use of online communication. Beyond the spectrum, the symptoms of ASD can be met in the general population at a milder scale, leading researchers to extend their work to subjects with high autistic traits, also called the broader autism phenotype. The present study explored online versus real life social skills in the general population according to the level of autistic traits. Method:Seventy-one adults without ASD (from 18 to 55 years old) reporting using social networks completed a questionnaire assessing their real-life and online social skills. Their autistic traits were assessed using the autistic quotient (AQ). Results:Results showed a direct influence of the level of autistic traits on real-life and online social skills: participants having high autistic traits demonstrated a lower level of real-life social skills (r=-0.26, p<.05) and conversely higher online social skills (r=0.28, p<.05), suggesting that social difficulties might be context-dependent. Conclusions:While further studies are needed in a population with ASD, our results report preliminary evidence of the potential benefit of online social interactions within the autistic spectrum. Further studies in ASD could consider the potential for using an electronic mediator within social remediations.

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The assessment of autistic traits with the Autism Spectrum Quotient: Contribution of the French version to its construct validity

Cited by 7 publications

References 35 publications

Multiple and subject-specific roles of uncertainty in reward-guided decision-making

Multiple and subject-specific roles of uncertainty in reward-guided decision-making

What Makes the Detection of Movement Different Within the Autistic Traits Spectrum? Evidence From the Audiovisual Depth Paradigm

Social Impairment in the Autistic Spectrum: Real-Life Versus Online Perceived Social Skills

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