caa a22 4500 38807292X CHVBK 20180307125153.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0790966700005188 doi S0790966700005188 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0790966700005188 Personality traits in parents of people with autism [Elektronische Daten] [Susan O'Hanrahan, Michael Fitzgerald, Myra O'Regan] Objectives: This study set out to explore if there were measurable personality characteristics specific to parents of people with autism. Method: Parents of 12 people with a DSM-III-R diagnosis of autism presented for the study. Each of the people with autism were matched where possible with a counterpart without autism but with a lifelong disability on parameters of age, sex and IQ level. Parents of the ‘autism' and ‘non-autism' groups were then interviewed in detail using four personality assessment instruments. Scores were tabulated for both mothers and fathers in each group and intergroup comparisons were made. Results: No significant personality profile difference was identifiable between the two parental groups. Conclusions: Personality traits specific to parents of people with autism are not identifiable in this study thus casting doubt on the validity of personality phenotypes as measurable heritability factors in autism. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Autism nationallicence Personality traits nationallicence Parents nationallicence O'Hanrahan Susan Clwydian Community Care Trust, Catherine Gladstone House, Mancot, Deeside CH5 2EP, Wales Fitzgerald Michael Clwydian Community Care Trust, Catherine Gladstone House, Mancot, Deeside CH5 2EP, Wales aut O'Regan Myra Dept of Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland aut Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 16/2(1999-06), 59-60 0790-9667 16:2<59 1999 16 IPM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0790966700005188 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 conference jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0790966700005188 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- O'Hanrahan Susan Clwydian Community Care Trust, Catherine Gladstone House, Mancot, Deeside CH5 2EP, Wales NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fitzgerald Michael Clwydian Community Care Trust, Catherine Gladstone House, Mancot, Deeside CH5 2EP, Wales aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- O'Regan Myra Dept of Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 16/2(1999-06), 59-60 0790-9667 16:2<59 1999 16 IPM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge