The negative thougts of adolesents with Asperger syndrome

• Main Authors: LO. YU-HUI, 羅玉慧
• Other Authors: 張正芬
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/434zb5

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 特殊教育學系 === 97 === Abstract This study compared the differences of negative thoughts between adolescents with Asperger syndrome (AS) and adolescents without disabilities in junior high schools. The Children's Automatic Thought Scales(CATS) was revised as a measure tool in this study which there were 394 junior high school students chosen as the norm in Taipei city and county. Afterwards, 49 adolescents with AS from seventh to ninth grades and their mothers participated in this study. In addition, a control group of 202 adolescents without disabilities were selected according to the matching rules. The data of CATS were collected by adolescents without disabilities, adolescents with AS and their mothers. The purpose was designed to compare the performance of adolescents with AS and adolescents without disabilities in the comprehensive scale of CATS which contains the subscales of depression, social anxiety, physical anxiety, and hostility. The major findings of this study were as following: First, the performance of adolescents with AS, the means score of CATS, and the subscales score of social anxiety, physical anxiety, depression, and hostility were only slighter higher than the norm, but within the range of one standard deviation(SD). It indicated that their performance in CATS were not up to the clinical significant standard. Second, adolescents with AS were scored significant higher than the control group for the toatl score of CATS, subscales of social anxiety, physical anxiety, depression, and hostility. Third, there were no significant differences between adolescents with AS and their mothers investigated in negative thoughts, social anxiety, depression, and hostility except for the subscale of physical anxiety. The results indicated that adolescents with AS merely received higher score in the subtest of physical anxiety than their mothers, while their performance in other subscales of CATS were similar. Fourth, the score of all the three groups (adolescents with AS, the control group, and mothers of children with AS) in the subscale of hostility was significantly higher than the other subscales. Fifth, the percentage of adolescents with AS getting higher score in negative thoughts was much greater than adolescents without disabilities. The percentage of getting higher score for participants as followed: adolescents without disabilities about 2 ~ 6%, adolescents with AS about 12 ~ 20%, and mothers of children with AS about 4 ~ 16%. Implications, recommendations, and future research directions are discussed.