Title

The relationship between communication attitude and emotion of children who stutter

Authors

Authors

M. Vanryckeghem; C. Hylebos; G. J. Brutten;M. Peleman

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Fluency Disord.

Keywords

Communication Attitude Test; attitude; emotion; SPEECH-ASSOCIATED ATTITUDES; NONSTUTTERING CHILDREN; THERAPY; Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology; Education, Special; Linguistics; Rehabilitation

Abstract

Mal-attitude and negative emotion specific to speech are known to correlate with severity among children who stutter. To determine if speech-associated mal-attitude and negative emotion also covary with each other, 143 grade-school children who stutter were administered Brutten's Communication Attitude Test (CAT). Then, independently, they also ranked their emotional reaction to those items of the CAT that had led them to report mal-attitude. The results revealed the existence of a statistically significant correlation of .89 between mat-attitude and negative emotion. Moreover, both speech-associated mal-attitude and negative emotion increased to a statistically significant extent with age and stuttering severity These data highlight the importance of early detection and intervention as it relates to the cognitive and affective components of the stuttering syndrome. Educational Objectives. The reader will learn and be able to describe the relationship between school-age children's (1) stuttering and their mal-attitudes toward speech, (2) their mal-attitudes and negative emotional reactions to speaking, and (3) the changes that occur in stuttering severity, mal-attitudes and negative emotional reactions between ages 7 and 13 years (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Journal of Fluency Disorders

Volume

26

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2001

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

1

Last Page

15

WOS Identifier

WOS:000168730900001

ISSN

0094-730X

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