Specific Aim Two
Pearson product moment correlations were used to examine relationships among adaptive behaviors of children with autism, family support, parental stress, and patterns of coping (see Table 6). To decrease the possibility of making a Type I error, the Bonferroni adjustment was used to compute a corrected significance level of α = .003. Low adaptive behavior composite scores were associated with increased Coping Pattern II (r =− 358, p = .002).