1. A case-control study of personality style and psychopathology in parents of subjects with autism.
- Author
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Bölte S, Knecht S, and Poustka F
- Subjects
- Adult, Child, Female, Humans, Intellectual Disability diagnosis, Male, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder diagnosis, Personality Disorders diagnosis, Personality Inventory, Severity of Illness Index, Autistic Disorder epidemiology, Child of Impaired Parents psychology, Child of Impaired Parents statistics & numerical data, Intellectual Disability epidemiology, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder epidemiology, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder psychology, Parents psychology, Personality Disorders epidemiology, Personality Disorders psychology
- Abstract
To probe the specificity of traits that might be conceptualised as the broader phenotype of autism, parents of subjects with autism from simplex and multiplex families as well as parents of subjects with obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD), early onset schizophrenia (EOS) and mental retardation (MR) were assessed using the Personality Style and Disorder Inventory and the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised. Autism parents' scores were increased on several subscales (e.g. reserved/schizoid, depression) compared to parents of subjects with OCD, EOS and normative data, but not in comparison to MR parents. Results provide some support for the specificity of the broader phenotype of autism. The burden of raising severely disabled children could not be ruled out as a factor influencing parts of this phenotype.
- Published
- 2007
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