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The Reliability and Validity of the Tokyo Autistic Behavior Scale
Author(s) -
Kurita Hiroshi,
Miyake Yuko
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1990.tb00438.x
Subject(s) - autism , childhood autism rating scale , psychology , rating scale , scale (ratio) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , interpersonal communication , autism spectrum disorder , cartography , social psychology , quantum mechanics , geography , power (physics) , physics
The Tokyo Autistic Behavior Scale (TABS) consisting of 39 items provisionally grouped in four areas–interpersonal‐social relationship, language‐communication, habit‐mannerism and others–is an instrument used by a child's caretaker to rate the child's autistic behaviors on a 3‐point scale. Test‐retest reliability was satisfactory (i.e., an r for a total score was .94). Among six DSM‐III diagnostic groups, infantile autism showed a significantly higher total TABS score than the other five groups, and a taxo‐nomic validity coefficient was .54. An r between total scores of the TABS and the Childhood Autism Rating Scale–Tokyo Version was .59. The area scores showed a lower validity than the total score. The TABS appears to be a useful instrument to assess autistic behavior.