TY - JOUR
T1 - Distributional Properties and Criterion Validity of a Shortened Version of the Social Responsiveness Scale
T2 - Results from the ECHO Program and Implications for Social Communication Research
AU - program collaborators for Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes
AU - Lyall, Kristen
AU - Hosseini, Mina
AU - Ladd-Acosta, Christine
AU - Ning, Xuejuan
AU - Catellier, Diane
AU - Constantino, John N.
AU - Croen, Lisa A.
AU - Kaat, Aaron J.
AU - Botteron, Kelly
AU - Bush, Nicole R.
AU - Dager, Stephen R.
AU - Duarte, Cristiane S.
AU - Fallin, M. Daniele
AU - Hazlett, Heather
AU - Hertz-Picciotto, Irva
AU - Joseph, Robert M.
AU - Karagas, Margaret R.
AU - Korrick, Susan
AU - Landa, Rebecca
AU - Messinger, Daniel
AU - Oken, Emily
AU - Ozonoff, Sally
AU - Piven, Joseph
AU - Pandey, Juhi
AU - Sathyanarayana, Sheela
AU - Schultz, Robert T.
AU - St. John, Tanya
AU - Schmidt, Rebecca
AU - Volk, Heather
AU - Newschaffer, Craig J.
AU - Benjamin, D. K.
AU - Smith, P. B.
AU - Newby, K. L.
AU - Jacobson, L. P.
AU - Parker, C. B.
AU - Gershon, R.
AU - Cella, D.
AU - Teitelbaum, S.
AU - Wright, R. O.
AU - Aldous, K. M.
AU - Fennell, T.
AU - Hecht, S. S.
AU - Peterson, L.
AU - O’Brien, B.
AU - Lee, J. Y.
AU - Snowden, J.
AU - Duarte, C.
AU - Hertz-Picciotto, I.
AU - Karagas, M.
AU - Karr, K.
N1 - Funding Information:
Research reported in this publication was supported by the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program, Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health, under Award Number U2COD023375 (Coordinating Center), U24OD023382 (Data Analysis Center), as well as 1U2COD023375-02 (Lyall), UH3OD023342 (Newschaffer), UH3OD023275 (Karagas), UG3/UH3OD023365 (Hertz-Picciotto), 5UH3OD023348-04 (O’Shea), 1U24OD023319-01 (Gershon & Cella), 1UG3OD023271-01 and 4UH3OD023271-03 (Karr), 1UG3OD023305-01 and 4UH3OD023305-03 (Trasande), UG3/UH3OD023328 (Duarte); UG3/UH3OD023286 (Oken). Funding support for original data collections was also received from the NIH under R01MH068398 (Ozonoff), R01HD055741 (Piven); R01ES016863 (Swan), R01ES25169 (Swan); from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences under P01ES022832 and US EPA US EPA: RD83544201 (Karagas), and from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under R01HD057284 (Messinger and Stone).
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Prior work proposed a shortened version of the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS), a commonly used quantitative measure of social communication traits. We used data from 3031 participants (including 190 ASD cases) from the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program to compare distributional properties and criterion validity of 16-item “short” to 65-item “full” SRS scores. Results demonstrated highly overlapping distributions of short and full scores. Both scores separated case from non-case individuals by approximately two standard deviations. ASD prediction was nearly identical for short and full scores (area under the curve values of 0.87, 0.86 respectively). Findings support comparability of shortened and full scores, suggesting opportunities to increase efficiency. Future work should confirm additional psychometric properties of short scores.
AB - Prior work proposed a shortened version of the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS), a commonly used quantitative measure of social communication traits. We used data from 3031 participants (including 190 ASD cases) from the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program to compare distributional properties and criterion validity of 16-item “short” to 65-item “full” SRS scores. Results demonstrated highly overlapping distributions of short and full scores. Both scores separated case from non-case individuals by approximately two standard deviations. ASD prediction was nearly identical for short and full scores (area under the curve values of 0.87, 0.86 respectively). Findings support comparability of shortened and full scores, suggesting opportunities to increase efficiency. Future work should confirm additional psychometric properties of short scores.
KW - Autism spectrum disorder
KW - Quantitative traits
KW - Social Responsiveness Scale
KW - Social communication
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U2 - 10.1007/s10803-020-04667-1
DO - 10.1007/s10803-020-04667-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 32944847
AN - SCOPUS:85091016436
JO - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
JF - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
SN - 0162-3257
ER -