A Scale Development and Examination of Neurotypical College Students' Perceived Barriers to Interacting With Peers on the Autism Spectrum.

Researchers built a new survey for Turkish college students. The survey asks how hard it feels to talk with autistic classmates.

They gave the 15-item BPSSQ to the students. They ran stats to see if the answers held together as one clean factor.

The scale worked. One-factor structure fit the data and reliability was strong (α = .87).

Students who felt more social support also felt more life satisfaction. Resilience acted as the bridge: support → resilience → satisfaction.

Fusaroli et al. (2022) showed autistic kids sound slightly different across languages. H et al. flip the lens: they ask how neurotypical peers feel about those differences. Together they map both sides of the same conversation.

Austin et al. (2015) found adults with ID report thinner, weaker networks. H et al. echo the theme: social barriers matter, but now in college students who are not disabled themselves. The two studies extend each other across age and diagnosis.

Wang et al. (2021) watched weaker parent-child body synchrony in ASD dyads. H et al. add a self-report angle: college students already sense that synchrony is harder before any interaction starts.

You now have a quick, free tool to measure how open a college club, dorm, or classroom feels toward autistic members. Give the BPSSQ at intake, target low-resilience students with brief acceptance training, and watch social support grow. It takes five minutes and needs no special gear.