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ArticleAutism : the international journal of research and practice2018

Perspective-taking is two-sided: Misunderstandings between people with Asperger's syndrome and their family members.

Brett Heasman, Alex Gillespie

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Article in Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.

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55 citing papers in PubMed, 149 citations in OpenAlex.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brett HeasmanThe London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
Alex GillespieThe London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
London School of Economics and Political Science · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Misunderstandings are social in nature, always having two sides. Yet the misunderstandings experienced by people with Asperger's syndrome are usually studied in terms of the individual with a diagnosis, with less emphasis on social relations. We use a two-sided methodology to map out misunderstandings within 22 dyads (n = 44) consisting of people with Asperger's syndrome and their family members. Both sides of the relationship were asked about 12 topics in terms of one's rating of Self, one's rating of Other and one's predicted rating by Other. The findings show that people with Asperger's are able to predict lower scores from family members, despite disagreeing with their view, and that family members often over-estimate the extent to which their relatives with Asperger's syndrome are egocentrically anchored in their own perspective. The research demonstrates that a two-sided methodology is viable, and it uses it to identify how representations of Asperger's syndrome can both support and hinder social understanding within relationships affected by Asperger's.

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Asperger SyndromeComprehensionParent-Child RelationsAdolescentAdultAgedCommunicationFamilyFamily RelationsFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedParentsSocial PerceptionYoung AdultAsperger’s syndromefamily relationshipsmethodologymisunderstandingmixed methodsperspective-taking

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PMID28683569
PMCPMC6055325
OpenAlexW2727105378

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