Role of parental occupation in autism spectrum disorder diagnosis and severity
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Pauline A. Filipek; Mohammad H. Rahbar; Katherine A. Loveland; Aisha S. Dickerson; Deborah A. Pearson
- Source
- Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders. 8:997-1007
- Subject
- genetic structures
medicine.disease
behavioral disciplines and activities
Article
Developmental psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Parental Occupation
Autism spectrum disorder
Secondary analysis
mental disorders
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Autism
Psychology
- Language
- ISSN
- 1750-9467
Some have suggested that parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may present with less recognizable autistic-like phenotypic characteristics, leading them to highly systemizing occupations. Using secondary analysis of data from two previous studies of children with ASD, we tested associations between parental occupations and ASD diagnosis and the association of parental occupational characteristics on ASD severity. We found that fathers in healthcare (P