Comparative analysis of emotional facial expression recognition and empathy in children with prader-willi syndrome and autism spectrum disorder

Table 6 Response time of blocks 2 and 3 of the Deusto-e-Motion 1.0 (contextualized scenarios) with statistically significant differences among three groups and in pairs

		Differences among 3 groups			Pairwise differences
Items	Descriptor of the contextual scene	H	η2	p	U	z	p	r	Post Hoc
10.1	Unexpected event situation	6.073	0.097	0.048	53.000	-2.468	0.014	0.45	Control < ASD
12	Situation of social inclusion of people with functional diversity	14.202	0.291	< 0.001	33.000 39.00	-3.298 -3.049	< 0.001 0.002	0.60 0.56	Control < PWS Control < ASD
14.2	Situation of social exclusion of people with functional diversity	18.490	0.393	< 0.001	37.000 16.000	-3.298 -4.003	0.002 < 0.001	0.60 0.73	Control < PWS Control < ASD
16	Unexpected event situation	10.361	0.199	0.006	60.000 36.500	-2.178 -3.279	0.016 0.001	0.39 0.59	Control < ASD PWS > ASD
17	Social inclusion situation	13.367	0.271	0.001	30.000 52.500	-3.423 -2.492	< 0.001 0.013	0.62 0.45	Control < ASD PWS > ASD
18	Frustration tolerance	7.195	0.124	0.027	52.500	-2.489	0.013	0.45	PWS > ASD
19.1	Frustration tolerance	11.283	0.221	0.004	44.500 42.000	-2.822 -2.925	0.005 0.003	0.51 0.53	Control < PWS Control < ASD
19.2	Frustration tolerance	7.480	0.130	0.024	50.500	-2.572	0.010	0.47	PWS < ASD
20.1	Sharing situation	8.154	0.147	0.017	46.500	-2.739	0.006	0.49	PWS < ASD
22.1	Interpersonal conflict situation	17.750	0.375	< 0.001	16.000	-4.003	< 0.001	0.73	Control < ASD
22.2	Interpersonal conflict situation	7.128	0.122	0.028	50.000	-2.593	0.010	0.47	Control < ASD
23.1	Sharing situation	7.603	0.133	0.022	52.000	-2.513	0.012	0.46	PWS > ASD
25.2	Exhaust situation	6.185	0.100	0.045	56.000	-2.344	0.016	0.43	Control < ASD
27	Obedience status	11.853	0.235	0.003	36.500	-3.153	0.002	0.58	PWS > ASD

H: Kruskal-Wallis H-test; η2: (eta squared) effect size for Kruskal-Wallis; U: Mann-Whitney U-test; z: standard scored; r: effect size for Mann-Whitney; p: statistical probability p-value
Significance level p ≤.05 for differences among three groups
Bonferroni post hoc analysis with corrected significance level p ≤.017 for pairwise differences

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