Leveling the employment playing field for people with autism: Does diversity training help?

---

作者

Rachel Kaup¹ , Cindi May¹ , Chris Whelpley²

1. College of Charleston
2. Virginia Commonwealth University

会议/活动

College of Charleston EXPO 2022, April 2022 (Charleston, United States)

海报摘要

Job interviews are an integral component of the hiring process in most fields. Our research examines job interview performance of those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared to neurotypical (NT) individuals. ASD and NT individuals were taped engaging in mock job interviews. In our first study, candidates were rated on several dimensions by respondents who either watched the interview videos or read interview transcripts. In both conditions they were naive to the neurodiversity of the candidates. NT candidates outperformed ASD candidates in the video condition, but in the absence of visual and social cues (transcript condition), individuals with ASD outperformed NT candidates. These findings suggest that it is style, rather than substance, that impedes success for ASD candidates in job interviews. In a second study, we demonstrate that the biases against ASD candidates in the job interview process can be reduced with both neurodiversity training for evaluators and diagnosis disclosure.

关键词

Autism spectrum disorder, Diversity training, Neurodiversity

研究领域

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Education, Business, Economics and Finance

参考文献

1. Whelpley, C. E., & May, C. P. (2023). Seeing is Disliking: Evidence of Bias Against Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Traditional Job Interviews. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 53(4), 1363–1374. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05432-2
2. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor (2023, February 23). Persons with a Disability: Labor Force Characteristics. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/disabl.pdf

基金

暂无数据

补充材料

暂无数据

附加信息

利益冲突

No competing interests were disclosed.

数据可用性声明

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

知识共享许可协议

Copyright © 2023 Kaup et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.