Chinese Validation of the Multidimensional Attitude Scale toward Persons with Disabilities (MAS): Attitudes toward Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Researchers translated the Multidimensional Attitude Scale (MAS) into Chinese. They gave the new form to 312 college students in China.

The team checked if the Chinese words still measured three things: positive feelings, negative feelings, and beliefs about people with autism.

The Chinese MAS held together well. Cronbach’s alpha was above 0.70 for every subscale, a sign of good internal consistency.

Scores also lined up as expected with other measures. Higher acceptance on the MAS matched higher empathy and lower prejudice.

Hongo et al. (2024) did the same kind of job in Japan. They validated the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire and also found solid reliability, showing the pattern holds across East-Asian languages.

Congiu et al. (2016) earlier showed the Spanish Stories of Everyday Life scale works for youth with ASD. Together these studies tell us autism measures can travel, but each needs its own cultural tune-up.

Low et al. (2024) looked at Malaysian university students and found self-reported autism traits linked to worse mental health. That seems opposite to the positive MAS results, yet the two studies asked different questions: Min measured personal distress while Ming-Hui measured attitudes toward others, so there is no real clash.

If you run social-skills groups with Chinese-speaking families, you now have a brief, free tool to check attitudes before and after intervention. A quick pre-group MAS score can flag hidden stigma that might block progress. Track the score again at discharge to show families—and funders—that views really shifted.