Brief Report: Compliance and Noncompliance to Parental Control Strategies in …

Abstract The present study examined children’s compliance and noncompliance behaviors in response to parental control strategies in 20 children with high-functioning autism (HFA) and 20 matched typically-developing children. Observational coding was used to measure child compliance (committed, situational), oncompliance (passive, defiance, self-assertion, negotiation) and parent control st…