TY - JOUR
T1 - Brief report
T2 - Compliance and noncompliance to parental control strategies in children with high-functioning autism and their typical peers
AU - Bryce, Crystal I.
AU - Jahromi, Laudan B.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This work was supported by seed funding to Dr. Laudan Jahromi from the school of social and family dynamics and Arizona State University. We also wish to thank the graduate students at ASU who conducted data collection (Shantel Meek, M.S. and Lauren Robinson, M.S.), the undergraduate research assistants on the project, Sharman Ober-Reynolds, MSN, RN, C-FNP, who conducted ADI-Rs for this study, and the Southwest Autism research and resource center for their support. Finally, we wish to thank all of the families who participated in our study.
PY - 2013/1
Y1 - 2013/1
N2 - The present study examined children's compliance and noncompliance behaviors in response to parental control strategies in 20 children with high-functioning autism (HFA) and 20 matched typically-developing children. Observational coding was used to measure child compliance (committed, situational), noncompliance (passive, defiance, self-assertion, negotiation) and parent control strategies (commands, reprimands, positive incentives, reasoning, bargaining) in a clean-up task. Sequential analyses were conducted to identify parent behaviors that temporally predicted child compliance or noncompliance. Children with HFA were significantly more noncompliant and less compliant immediately following parents' indirect commands than typically-developing children, even after controlling for receptive language. These results add to the existing literature on the efficacy of control strategies for children with autism, and have important implications for caregiver interventions.
AB - The present study examined children's compliance and noncompliance behaviors in response to parental control strategies in 20 children with high-functioning autism (HFA) and 20 matched typically-developing children. Observational coding was used to measure child compliance (committed, situational), noncompliance (passive, defiance, self-assertion, negotiation) and parent control strategies (commands, reprimands, positive incentives, reasoning, bargaining) in a clean-up task. Sequential analyses were conducted to identify parent behaviors that temporally predicted child compliance or noncompliance. Children with HFA were significantly more noncompliant and less compliant immediately following parents' indirect commands than typically-developing children, even after controlling for receptive language. These results add to the existing literature on the efficacy of control strategies for children with autism, and have important implications for caregiver interventions.
KW - Compliance
KW - High-functioning autism
KW - Noncompliance
KW - Parent behavior
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U2 - 10.1007/s10803-012-1564-2
DO - 10.1007/s10803-012-1564-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 22688777
AN - SCOPUS:84872354291
SN - 0162-3257
VL - 43
SP - 236
EP - 243
JO - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
JF - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
IS - 1
ER -