Testing the Extreme Male Brain Theory of Autism (자폐스펙트럼장애에 대한 극단적 남성 뇌 이론의 검증)

김혜리; Jaisun Koo (구재선); Kyungmi Kim (김경미); KIM BUNG-NYUN (김붕년); Kim， Jae-Won (김재원); Min Park (박민); 박수진; Tae Won Park (박태원); Son, Jung-woo (손정우); Min-Sup Shin (신민섭); Haeyoung Yang (양혜영); Yoo, Hee Jeong (유희정); YOON HYO WOON (윤효운); 이승복; 정명숙; Un-Sun Chung (정운선); 조경자; 조인희; SooChurl Cho (조수철); 차화정; CHOI HYEON OK (최현옥)

Testing the Extreme Male Brain Theory of Autism

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2011, 24(1), pp.19-38
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

김혜리 ¹, Jaisun Koo ², Kyungmi Kim ³, KIM BUNG-NYUN ⁴, Kim， Jae-Won ⁴, Min Park ⁵, 박수진 ⁶, Tae Won Park ⁷, Son, Jung-woo ¹, Min-Sup Shin ⁴, Haeyoung Yang ¹, Yoo, Hee Jeong ⁴, YOON HYO WOON ⁸, 이승복 ¹, 정명숙 ⁹, Un-Sun Chung ¹⁰, 조경자 ¹, 조인희 ¹¹, SooChurl Cho ⁴, 차화정 ¹, CHOI HYEON OK ¹

¹충북대학교
²중앙대학교
³선문대학교
⁴서울대학교
⁵나사렛대학교
⁶연세대학교
⁷전북대학교
⁸대구사이버대학교
⁹꽃동네대학교
¹⁰경북대학교
¹¹가천의과학대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study tested the extreme male brain (EMB) theory of autism. According to EMB theory, people with autism show an extreme of the male profile in terms of empathizing and systemizing, that is low empathizing and high systemizing. Two groups of children matched with verbal mental age (36-90 months) participated: children with autism and typically developing children. Each participants were given TOM tasks, and their mothers were asked to complete the children's versions of the Empathy Quotient (EQ-C), Systemizing Quotient (SQ-C) and Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ-C). The autism spectrum condition group scored significantly lower than control on the TOM Tasks and EQ-C, and significantly higher on AQ-C, but there were no differences on the SQ-C. In addition, EQ-C and TOM were positively correlated to AQ-C, but not correlated to SQ-C. The EMB theory of autism has not been supported.

KEYWORDS

autism spectrum condition, theory of mind, empathizing, systemizing, sex differences

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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