The Personal and Social Performance scale (PSP) was developed to measure social functioning in schizophrenia, separate from psychological symptoms [ 94].
Due to the fact that the approach of measuring social competence as a "performance test" is new, verifications were made at various points in order to ensure the validity.
The aim of this study was twofold: first, to assess the relationship between ASD traits and trait EI, and second, to examine performance on tasks measuring social cognition and cognitive flexibility in non-diagnosed participants with extreme ASD trait scores.
Furthermore, compared to their peers with lower ASD traits, individuals with higher ASD traits were expected to demonstrate poorer performance on tasks measuring social cognition and cognitive flexibility (H5).
Overall, these findings yield strong support for the hypothesis that individuals with higher levels of ASD traits would exhibit poorer performance on tasks measuring social cognition, cognitive flexibility, and emotional set-shifting (H5 and H6).
In the present research, we first assessed the association of sub-threshold ASD traits with trait EI and empathy (Study 1), and subsequently examined performance on tasks measuring social cognition and cognitive flexibility separately and simultaneously in a sub-group of participants with either high or low ASD traits (Study 2).
Measuring social cohesion.
We can assume that the CSR report measures corporate social performance not social responsibilities in its full diversity.
Moreover, our findings were consistent with the results of the study that found relationship between social support and mammography performance", though, of course, they applied different scales to measure social support compared to ours [ 36].
Therefore, the elaboration of measures regarding social performance besides scales that assess psychopathology is essential.
