ACSo
Self-Assessment of Social Cognition Impairments (ACSo)
The ACSo is a brief self-report questionnaire on social cognition designed to identify subjective complaints in daily life. It explores four domains that are clinically useful in psychology and psychiatry: attributional biases, social perception and knowledge, emotional processes, and theory of mind. Developed in French from a transdiagnostic perspective, it is mainly used with adults who have a psychiatric disorder or a neurodevelopmental disorder with a sociocognitive impact, notably schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or autism spectrum disorder. Its main value is to add a measure of the patient's subjective experience to the objective assessment, which is useful for preparing psychosocial rehabilitation, targeting therapeutic goals, and monitoring changes in perceived difficulties.
- Number of questions
- 12 questions
- Estimated duration
- 5 minutes
- Language
- English
- Original name
- Self-Assessment of Social Cognition Impairments
- Target audience
- Adults
- Authors
- Jérôme Graux, Alix Thillay, Vivien Morlec, Pierre-Yves Sarron, Sylvie Roux, Baptiste Gaudelus, Zelda Prost, Lindsay Brénugat-Herné, Isabelle Amado, Shasha Morel-Kohlmeyer, Emmanuelle Houy-Durand, Nicolas Franck, Isabelle Carteau-Martin, Charlotte Danset-Alexandre, Elodie Peyroux (2019)
- Category
- Autism spectrum
Scoring & interpretation
Each item is scored from 0 to 4, from never to very often. The total score is the sum of the 12 items, with a range of 0 to 48. A higher score indicates more subjective social cognition complaints. Subscores can be calculated according to the validated factor solution: attributional biases for items 4, 7, and 12; social perception and knowledge for items 3, 8, and 9; emotional processes for items 1 and 10; theory of mind for items 2, 6, and 11. Item 5 is kept in the total score but is not included in the subscores. In the original study, a cutoff of 13 showed good discrimination between patients and controls, but it should not be interpreted as a diagnostic cutoff.
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