The examination of the relationship between the level of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the social skills and the problem of behavior of children between 36-78 months with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the interactional behaviors of their mothers

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between ASD, problem behavior and social skill levels of children with ASD between 36-78 months and interactional behaviors of their mothers. For this purpose, participants included 65 child-mother dyads. Relational-descriptive research model was used and data were collected with. Data were collected with the Adapted Autism Behavior Checklist-ABC, Preschool and Kindergarden Behaviour Scales and Maternal Behavior Rating Scale-Turkish Version. Results revealed that children with ASD had moderate level social skill and problem behavior while their mothers showed moderately sensitive-responsive and success-oriented interactional behaviors and were moderately close to show affect. As the level of education of mothers increases, sensitive-responsive interactional behaviors and success oriented interactional behaviors approaches to the desired level. Results also revealed that there was a negative correlation between the ASD level of the children and sensitive responsive interactional behaviors of mothers. Positive correlations between social skill scores of children and sensitive-responsive interactional behaviors of mothers were found to be positively correlated with emotional-expressive interactional behaviors of mothers. Moreover, a negative significant relationship was found between the total score of problem behaviors of children and mothers' sensitive-responsive interactional behaviors.