Distributional Properties and Criterion Validity of a Shortened Version of the Social Responsiveness Scale: Results from the ECHO Program and Implications for Social Communication Research

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 di...

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Published inJournal of autism and developmental disorders Vol. 51; no. 7; pp. 2241 - 2253
Main Authors Lyall, Kristen, Hosseini, Mina, Ladd-Acosta, Christine, Ning, Xuejuan, Catellier, Diane, Constantino, John N., Croen, Lisa A., Kaat, Aaron J., Botteron, Kelly, Bush, Nicole R., Dager, Stephen R., Duarte, Cristiane S., Fallin, M. Daniele, Hazlett, Heather, Hertz-Picciotto, Irva, Joseph, Robert M., Karagas, Margaret R., Korrick, Susan, Landa, Rebecca, Messinger, Daniel, Oken, Emily, Ozonoff, Sally, Piven, Joseph, Pandey, Juhi, Sathyanarayana, Sheela, Schultz, Robert T., St. John, Tanya, Schmidt, Rebecca, Volk, Heather, Newschaffer, Craig J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.07.2021
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Adolescent
Area Under Curve
Autism
Autism Spectrum Disorder - diagnosis
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Child
Child and School Psychology
Child, Preschool
Childrens health
Communication
Communication Research
Diagnosis
Environmental aspects
Female
Genotype & phenotype
Health aspects
Health status
Humans
Internet resources
Interpersonal Communication
Male
Measures (Individuals)
Neurosciences
Original Paper
Pediatrics
Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Population
Prediction
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - standards
Psychology
Psychometrics
Public Health
Quantitative psychology
Reproducibility of Results
Responsiveness
Scores
Social Behavior
Social skills
Test Validity
Validity
United States
Social Responsiveness Scale
Social communication
Quantitative traits
Autism spectrum disorder
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Summary: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.
Bibliography:Author Note
See Appendix for full listing of collaborators
Author affiliations are as follows: Kristen Lyall, A.J. Drexel Autism Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA; Mina Hosseini and Xuejuan Ning Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Christine Ladd-Acosta, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Diane Catellier, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC; John N. Constantino, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO; Lisa A. Croen, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland CA; Aaron J. Kaat, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine; Northwestern University, Chicago IL; Kelly Botteron, Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Washington University, St Louis, MO; Nicole R. Bush, Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco; Stephen R. Dager, Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Cristiane S. Duarte, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY; M. Daniele Fallin and Heather E. Volk, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Heather Hazlett and Joseph Piven, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Irva Hertz-Picciotto and Rebecca Schmidt, Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis, Davis CA and the UC Davis MIND Institute, Sacramento, CA; Robert M. Joseph15, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; Margaret R. Karagas, Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College; Susan Korrick, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Rebecca Landa, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD; Daniel Messinger, Departments of Psychology and Pediatrics, University of Miami; Emily Oken, Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute; Sally Ozonoff , Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, MIND Institute, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA; Juhi Pandey and Robert T. Schultz, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Sheela Sathyanarayana, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Research Institute; Tanya St. John, University of Washington, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Seattle, WA; Craig J. Newschaffer, AJ Drexel Autism Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, and College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University. On behalf of program collaborators for Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes; see Appendix 1 for full listing of collaborators.
ISSN:0162-3257
1573-3432
DOI:10.1007/s10803-020-04667-1