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Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire
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CAT-Q: sources, scoring, and limitations
The CAT-Q measures self-reported social camouflaging in autistic and non-autistic people. It is not an autism diagnostic test, and this site assigns no diagnostic cutoff or probability. This site offers the questionnaire to adults aged 18 and over.
All 25 responses are scored from 1 to 7. Items 3, 12, 19, 22, and 24 are reverse scored. The total ranges from 25 to 175. Compensation: 9–63; Masking: 8–56; Assimilation: 8–56. Higher scores describe more self-reported camouflaging; the subscales have different lengths.
Hull, L., Mandy, W., Lai, M.-C., Baron-Cohen, S., Allison, C., Smith, P., & Petrides, K. V. (2019). Development and Validation of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) ↗. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49, 819–833.
Reproduced from the original article’s Online Appendix 1 under CC BY 4.0 ↗. Changes: interactive web layout, response-label capitalization, and omission of asterisks used to mark reverse-scored items. Item wording and scoring values are preserved. Web scoring version 1.0.0.