Event Abstract Back to Event The Relationship among Peer Statue, EQ (Empathy Quotient), SQ (Systemizing Quotient), and AQ (Autism Spectrum Quotient) Hwa-Jung Cha1*, Chan-Ok Park1, Seung-Bok Lee1 and Hei-Rhee Ghim1 1 Chungbuk National University, Department of Psychology, South Korea This study aimed at investigating whether the scores of social preference and social influence were related to empathy quotient (EQ), systemizing quotient (SQ), and autism spectrum quotient (AQ), and whether five groups of children by peer statue (i.e., the popular, controversial, average, neglected, and rejected groups) were classified by peer nominations had differences on the scores of EQ, SQ, and AQ. The participants were school-age children who began to extend their social relationships to peer relationships out of their families and were in the sixth grade of elementary school. They are expected to be most stable developed and stable on empathy among elementary school students. For the assessment of the peer social statue of children, the Sociometrix test (Coie & Dodge, 1983) was applied. The test was performed to measure the five peer statues: the popular, controversial, average, neglected, and rejected groups. The Korean versions of children's versions of the Empathy Quotient (EQ-C)(Chapman, Baron-Cohen, Auyeung, Knickmeyer, Taylor, & Hackett, 2006), children's versions of the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ-C) (Auyeung, Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, & Allison, 2007), and children's versions of the Systemizing Quotient (SQ-C) (Auyeung, Baron-Cohen, Chapman, Knickmeyer, Taylor, & Hackett, 2006) were used to measure empathy, systemizing, and autistic inclination. Participants: 126 boys and 115 girls from seven classes of an elementary school participated in the study. The range of age of participants was from 10.8 to 12.9 years (mean age = 12.2 years). Measures: The Korean versions of EQ-C (Chapman, Baron-Cohen, Auyeung, Knickmeyer, Taylor, & Hackett, 2006), AQ-C (Auyeung, Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, & Allison, 2007), and SQ-C (Auyeung, Baron-Cohen, Chapman, Knickmeyer, Taylor, & Hackett, 2006) were used to measure empathy, systemizing, and autistic inclination. The Sociometrix test (Coie & Dodge, 1983) was used for the assessment of the peer social statues of children. In the Sociometrix test, the number of positive nominations was converted to the standard scores using the mean and standard deviation of positive nomination numbers of whole class, and these standard scores were used for the score for Like More (LM). The scores of negative nomination (Like Least, LL) were calculated by the same process. Social preference (SP=LM-LL) and social impact (SP=LM+LL) were calculated using LM and LL. The condition of classification of peer statue is presented in the table1. Procedure: Before the experiments begun, the participants completed EQ, SQ, and AQ presented by computer screens in the lab. Next, the Sociometrix was begun. In the test, children were given a sheet of paper and asked to write down three names for positive nomination and three names for negative nomination on it. This procedure took about 25 minutes. The results showed that the popular, controversial, and average groups had stronger empathetic inclination than the rejected group, and the neglected and rejected groups were disposed toward more autistic tendency than the popular group. In addition, it was revealed that the social preference increased when EQ was high, and the social preference was decreased when AQ was high.