Episode 165 - Quality of Life

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Behavioralscience, Education, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Social Sciences, Aba, Science, Specialeducation

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Unlike mercy, our quality of life does NOT droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven. Instead, our perception of how well (or not) our lives are is based on a number of factors relating to job satisfaction, social relationships, and physical wellbeing. Or so we thought. Turns out, all measures of quality of life may not be created equally, especially for autistic individuals. This week, we hit the research journals to identify what does and doesn’t matter in improving quality of life (and, what research still has to find out!).

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Articles discussed this episode:

Bernhardt, J.B., Larn, G.Y.H., Thomas, T., Cubells, J.F., Bohlke, K. Reid, M., & Rice, C.E. (2020). Meaning in measurement: Evaluating young autistic adults’ active engagement and expressed interest in quality-of-life goals. Ausitm in Adulthood, 2, 227-242. doi: 10.1089/aut.2019.0081

Burgess, A.F. & Gutstein, S.E. (2007). Quality of life for people with autism: Raising the standard for evaluating successful outcomes. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 12, 80-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2006.00432.x

Ayres, M., Parr, JR., Rodgers, J., Mason, D., Avery ,L., & Flynn, D. (2017). A systematic review of quality of life of adults on the autism spectrum. Autism, 22, 774-783. doi: 10.1177/1362361317714988

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer.
0:19.4	I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts. Hey Rob, it's Diana. And it's me
0:26.0	Jackie Jackie Jackie. Well, here we are again in the studio. Jackie's texting somebody.
0:31.8	Diana's trying to fix a game piece she broke. I just got super glue on your finger, huh?
0:36.3	I have to go.
0:43.0	I was actually looking up the song that goes, Jackie, Jackie, spend the winter with me.
0:46.4	Oh, Jackie, Jackie, do songs make you feel happy, Jackie?
0:49.7	Do they make you feel like your life is of higher quality than it was before?
0:51.3	Yeah, that's why I was singing it.
0:55.1	I love it when songs are about me, and there's like very few Jackie songs.
0:57.2	That's, oh, that's, I can't think of a single one.
0:58.1	That one.
0:58.7	Yeah.
0:59.4	That I just sang.
1:00.9	But yeah, that's about it.
1:02.0	Songs make you feel happy.
1:03.7	It makes you feel like your life is fulfilled.
1:11.4	Yeah, I feel like the overall quality of my life is improved by music. All right, Dinah, how about you? What makes you feel like your life is full and meaningful?
1:13.1	Well, I'll tell you what it's not.
1:14.6	It's when people sing Dirty Diana.
1:16.3	I don't know that song.
1:17.4	A Michael Jackson's song.
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