Mentalising and social problem solving in adults with Asperger's syndrome

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Table 1 Mean scores and standard deviations for the social cognition measures.

	AS group		Control group
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Significance	Effect size
Mentalistic interpretation task (%)
Quality of interpretation
Physical events	99.52	2.18	100.00	0.00	n/s	0.32
Sarcastic remarks	78.57	26.51	95.24	8.14	**	0.85
Mentalistic actions	87.62	15.46	96.67	4.83	*	0.79
Total interpretation score	83.10	19.90	95.95	3.75	**	0.90
Selection of best alternatives
Physical events	98.10	6.02	100.00	0.00	n/s	0.45
Sarcastic remarks	80.95	24.88	96.19	10.24	*	0.80
Mentalistic actions	96.19	8.05	97.14	7.17	n/s	0.12
Total alternatives score	88.57	16.21	96.67	5.77	*	0.67
Selection of incorrect alternatives
Physical events
General alternative	1.90	6.02	0.00	0.00	n/s	0.45
Irrelevant alternative	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	.00	n/s
Wrong alternative	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	.00	n/s
Sarcastic remarks
General alternative	6.67	13.17	2.86	9.56	n/s	0.00
Irrelevant alternative	1.90	6.02	0.00	0.00	n/s	0.45
Wrong alternative	10.48	18.57	0.95	4.36	*	0.71
Mentalistic actions
General alternative	2.86	7.17	2.86	7.17	n/s	0.00
Irrelevant alternative	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	.00	n/s
Wrong alternative	0.95	4.36	0.00	0.00	n/s	0.31
Social problem resolution task (%)
Quality of best solution	73.33	13.54	87.38	6.25	**	1.33
Social and practical (SP)	53.81	19.62	75.71	12.07	**	1.34
Social not practical (S)	18.10	14.01	10.00	8.37	*	0.70
Practical not social (P)	20.95	13.00	13.33	10.17	*	0.65
Neither social nor practical (N)	7.14	11.46	0.95	3.01	*	0.79
Social problem fluency task (%)
Detection of awkwardness	91.43	13.52	97.14	5.61	n/s	0.55
Subjective awkwardness	64.23	12.14	63.19	13.61	n/s	0.08
Social and practical (SP)	58.57	12.26	67.86	10.07	*	0.83
Social not practical (S)	37.14	16.63	48.57	15.74	*	0.71
Practical not social (P)	30.95	15.13	37.62	18.41	n/s	0.40
Neither social nor practical (N)	23.33	23.52	24.76	20.15	n/s	0.07
Selection of best alternatives (SP)	80.48	20.85	81.90	11.67	n/s	0.08
Composite test scores (%)
Generation score	65.16	10.94	79.84	6.87	**	1.61
Judgement score	84.52	15.64	89.29	5.76	n/s	0.41

Note: **p < .01, *p < .05.