Parenting preschoolers with autism: Socioeconomic influences on wellbeing and sense of competence

Table 6 Significant correlations between measures of parenting sense of competence and wellbeing and autism spectrum disorder symptom severity for the whole sample and by levels of socioeconomic status

Mothers			Fathers
Full sample	Sample by AUSEI06	Sample by IRSAD	Full sample	Sample by AUSEI06	Sample by IRSAD
PSOC satisfaction
Negative: SCQ communication, r(99) = -0.270, P = 0.007	Top third of SES: Negative: SCQ total, r(60) = -0.317, P = 0.013	Middle third of SES: Negative: SCQ communication, r(39) = -0.457, P = 0.003
Negative: SCQ total, r(100) = -0.264, P = 0.008	Negative: SCQ communication, r(59) = -0.300, P = 0.021	Top third of SES: Negative: SCQ communication, r(17) = -0.545, P = 0.024
Negative: SCQ social, r(100) =-0.226, = 0.024		Negative: SCQ RRBI, r(17) = -0.553, P = 0.021
Positive: VABS - adaptive, r(90) = 0.235, P = 0.026		Negative: SCQ total, r(17) = -0.572, P = 0.016
PSOC efficacy
Negative: SCQ social, r(100) = -0.291, P = 0.003	Top third of SES: Positive: VABS - adaptive, r(56) = 0.360, P = 0.006	Top third of SES: Negative: SCQ communication, r(17) = -0.719, P = 0.001		Top third of SES: Negative: VABS - maladaptive, r(37) = -0.461, P = 0.004	Bottom third of SES: Negative: VABS - maladaptive, r(23) = -0.487, P = 0.018
Negative: SCQ RRSB, r(100) = -0.307, P = 0.002	Negative: SCQ total, r(60) = -0.374, P = 0.003	Negative: SCQ social, r(17) = -0.609, P = 0.010		Negative: SCQ total, r(39) = -0.449, P = 0.004
Negative: SCQ total, r(100) = -0.348, P < 0.001	Negative: SCQ Social, r(60) = -0.304, P = 0.018	Negative: SCQ Total, r(17) = -0.660, P = 0.004
Positive: VABS - adaptive, r(90) = 0.230, P = 0.029	Negative: SCQ RRBI, r(60) = -0.312, P = 0.015
PSOC interest
Positive: IRSAD, r(106) = 0.278, P = 0.004		Middle third of SES: Negative: SCQ communication, r(39) = -0.364, P = 0.023
		Top third of SES: Negative: SCQ communication, r(17) = -0.553, P = 0.021
DASS depression
Negative: VABS - adaptive, r(85) = -0.258, P = 0.017		Top third of SES: Negative: VABS - adaptive, r(14) = -0.664, P = 0.010	Negative: AUSEI06, r(52) = -0.323, P = 0.020
Positive: SCQ total, r(95) = 0.238, P = 0.020
DASS anxiety
		Top third of SES: Positive: VABS - maladaptive, r(14) = 0.644, P = 0.013	Negative: AUSEI06, r(52) = -0.316, P = 0.023
DASS stress
		Top third of SES: Positive: ADOS comparison (severity) score, r(14) = 0.635, P = 0.015	Negative: AUSEI06, r(53) = -0.305, P = 0.026

The value in parenthesis after “r” is the sample size for the analysis (n). PSOC: Parenting Sense of Competence; DASS: Depression Anxiety Stress Scale; SCQ: Social Communication Questionnaire; VABS: Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales; IRSAD: Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage; AUESI06: Australian Socioeconomic Index 2006; SES: Socioeconomic status.