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Internal Reliability of Personality Scales
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ASD TYPICAL____
Personality
Factor Facets IAN MTURK NORM
Extraversion
Activity Level .88 .82 .74
Considerate .84 .81 .79
Positive Emotion .76 .84 .81
Sociability .75 .87 .78
Conscientiousness
Achievement .69 .62 .71
Distractible .60 .57 .72
Organized .70 .67 .46
Agreeableness
Antagonism .74 .87 .77
Compliance .81 .79 .67
Strong willed .76 .76 .73
Neuroticism
Anger .88 .86 .74
Fear/Insecure .79 .77 .70
Shy .66 .82 .70
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ASD TYPICAL____
Personality
Factor Facets IAN MTURK NORM
Openness
Intelligence .85 .83 .79
______Openness .77 .75 .52
Note. ASD = Autism Spectrum Disorder; IAN = internal reliabilities from
ASD children collected on-line via the Interactive Autism Network;
MTURK = internal reliabilities from typical children collected on-line via
Mechanical Turk; NORM = internal reliabilities from subset of typical
children aged 4 – 7 from the ICID-S norming data provided by Dr. Roy
Martin; Published Norms = published norms from entire ICID-S dataset of
children aged 2 – 15 as reported by Deal et al. (2007).
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Personality Facet Means and Standard Deviations for ASD and Typical Children
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Contemporary Analysis Non-contemporary Analysis
Personality
Factor Facet ASD M (SD) MTURK M (SD) ASD M (SD) NORM M (SD)
Extraversion
Activity Level 16.03 (4.56) 14.39 (2.87) 15.98 (4.53) 16.01 (3.05)
Boys 16.09 (4.54) 14.87 (3.17) 16.04 (4.51) 16.27 (2.96)
Girls 15.71 (4.77) 14.00 (2.55) 15.71 (4.77) 15.75 (3.12)
Consideration 8.51 (3.87) 13.69 (2.27) 8.52 (3.85) 14.83 (2.95)
Boys 8.67 (3.99) 12.92 (3.10) 8.67 (3.96) 14.63 (2.87)
Girls 7.81 (3.28) 14.34 (3.29) 7.81 (3.28) 15.04 (3.03)
Positive Emotion 14.50 (4.02) 15.40 (3.34) 14.47 (3.99) 17.23 (2.98)
Boys 14.41 (3.92) 14.81 (3.43) 14.38 (3.81) 17.11 (2.94)
Girls 14.90 (4.51) 15.90 (3.20) 14.90 (4.52) 17.35 (3.02)
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Contemporary Analysis Non-contemporary Analysis
Personality
Factor Facet ASD M (SD) MTURK M (SD) ASD M (SD) NORM M (SD)
Extraversion
Sociability 10.65 (4.36) 19.56 (4.04) 10.64 (4.41) 20.53 (3.99)
Boys 10.67 (4.31) 19.65 (4.42) 10.66 (4.37) 20.44 (3.80)
Girls 10.57 (4.70) 19.48 (3.72) 10.57 (4.70) 20.62 (4.19)
Conscientiousness
Achievement 10.88 (4.17) 12.97 (2.52) 10.84 (4.14) 13.98 (2.680
Boys 10.85 (4.14) 12.56 (2.25) 10.81 (4.11) 13.80 (2.58)
Girls 11.00 (4.39) 13.32 (2.70) 11.00 (4.39) 14.16 (2.77)
Distractible -- -- 13.59 (4.17) 10.15 (3.21)
Boys -- -- 13.40 (4.14) 10.54 (2.94)
Girls -- -- 14.48 (4.31) 9.77 (3.42)
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Contemporary Analysis Non-contemporary Analysis
Personality
Factor Facet ASD M (SD) MTURK M (SD) ASD M (SD) NORM M (SD)
Conscientiousness (continued)
Organized 11.43 (4.50) 14.81 (3.10) -- --
Boys 11.52 (4.44) 14.19 (3.36) -- --
Girls 11.00 (4.84) 15.32 (2.79) -- --
Agreeableness
Antagonism 10.67 (4.35) 9.32 (3.80) 10.71 (4.33) 8.73 (3.44)
Boys 10.51 (4.28) 9.98 (3.87) 10.60 (4.26) 8.90 (3.23)
Girls 11.24 (4.70) 8.77 (3.68) 11.24 (4.70) 8.56 (3.63)
Compliance 9.45 (4.34) 12.74 (2.23) 9.38 (4.34) 13.36 (2.74)
Boys 9.53 (4.36) 11.79 (2.15) 9.44 (4.36) 13.04 (2.57)
Girls 9.10 (4.35) 13.53 (3.10) 9.10 (4.35) 13.69 (2.74)
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Contemporary Analysis Non-contemporary Analysis
Personality
Factor Facet ASD M (SD) MTURK M (SD) ASD M (SD) NORM M (SD)
Agreeableness (continued)
Strong willed 19.48 (4.85) 16.35 (4.20) 19.50 (4.81) 16.04 (4.24)
Boys 19.41 (4.87) 16.92 (4.57) 19.43 (4.83) 16.35 (4.08)
Girls 19.81 (4.82) 15.87 (3.84) 19.81 (4.82) 15.72 (4.38)
Neuroticism
Anger 14.36 (4.70) 10.71 (3.97) 14.40 (4.67) 10.24 (3.38)
Boys 14.14 (4.76) 11.19 (3.89) 14.19 (4.73) 10.46 (3.17)
Girls 15.38 (4.36) 10.31 (4.03) 15.38 (4.36) 10.02 (3.58)
Fear/Insecure 15.92 (5.82) 13.37 (3.83) 15.93 (5.80) 12.33 (4.24)
Boys 15.61 (5.59) 13.15 (3.63) 15.63 (5.57) 12.52 (4.00)
Girls 17.33 (6.71) 13.54 (4.01) 17.33 (6.71) 12.13 (4.47)
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Contemporary Analysis Non-contemporary Analysis
Personality
Factor Facet ASD M (SD) MTURK M (SD) ASD M (SD) NORM M (SD)
Neuroticism (continued)
Shy 20.75 (4.28) 12.11 (4.28) 20.73 (4.33) 12.08 (4.06)
Boys 20.48 (4.05) 12.04 (4.47) 20.46 (4.12) 12.03 (3.82)
Girls 22.00 (5.13) 12.16 (4.15) 22.00 (5.13) 12.13 (4.31)
Openness
Intelligence 13.70 (5.18) 15.04 (3.22) 13.70 (5.13) 15.89 (3.07)
Boys 14.17 (4.99) 14.62 (3.05) 14.15 (4.94) 15.68 (2.97)
Girls 11.57 (5.61) 15.38 (3.35) 11.57 (5.61) 16.10 (3.17)
Openness 14.13 (5.63) 19.48(3.14) -- --
Boys 14.17 (5.54) 19.41 (3.41) -- --
______Girls 14.02 (6.08) 19.55 (2.97) -- --____
Note. -- = facet data omitted due to unacceptably low internal reliability (i.e., α < .60; George and Mallorey, 2003);
ASD = Autism Spectrum Disorder; IAN = ASD data collected via the Interactive Autism Network; MTURK
= data collected via Mechanical Turk; NA = not applicable; NORM = data from norming sample of Inventory of
Children’s Individual Differences (Halverson et al., 2003).