著者

Yuuya Nagai Toshihiko Hinobayashi Tadahiro Kanazawa

出版者

THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION

雑誌

Journal of Special Education Research (ISSN:21875014)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.6, no.1, pp.1-9, 2017-08-31 (Released:2018-02-28)

参考文献数

36

被引用文献数

2 4

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We investigated the relationships between early social-communication behaviors and maladaptive behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Fifty-three children with both intellectual disabilities and developmental disorders including ASD participated in the current study. The results of a stepwise multiple regression showed that frequency of initiating joint attention and rate of positive affect expression were independent negative predictors of internalizing problems; severity of ASD symptom and frequency of requests were positive predictors, and rate of positive affect expression was a negative predictor, of v-scale score for externalizing problems. These results demonstrated that different types of early social-communication behaviors influence different kinds of maladaptive behaviors in children with ASD. In particular, positive affect expression with communication was a negative predictor of both internalizing and externalizing problems. It is critical that we explore how maladaptive behaviors develop in children with ASD, with a particular focus on the development of early social-communication.