Title

Stuttering and social anxiety

Authors

Authors

F. W. Kraaimaat; M. Vanryckeghem;R. Van Dam-Baggen

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Fluency Disord.

Keywords

stuttering; social anxiety; inventory of interpersonal situations; NONSTUTTERING CHILDREN; COMMUNICATION ATTITUDE; SPEECH; PHOBIA; TASKS; Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology; Education, Special; Linguistics; Rehabilitation

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to investigate the presence of social anxiety in adults who stutter. This was done by administering the Inventory of Interpersonal Situations (IIS) (Van Dam-Baggen & Kraaimaat, 1999), a social anxiety inventory, to a group of 89 people who stuttered and 131 people who did not stutter. Two components of social anxiety were measured by the ISS, the extent to which emotional tension or discomfort is perceived in social situations and the frequency with which social responses are executed. The people who stuttered displayed significantly higher levels of emotional tension or discomfort in social situations. They also reported a significantly lower frequency of social responses compared to their nonstuttering peers. In addition, about 50% of the scores of the people who stuttered fell within the range of a group of highly socially anxious psychiatric patients. The results of the study suggest that the measurement of social anxiety is an important element in the assessment of adults who stutter. Educational objectives: The reader will learn about and be able to describe (1) the IIS as an assessment procedure for evaluating social anxiety, (2) the level of discomfort expressed by adult stutterers in social situations, and (3) the effect of social anxiety on stutterers' responsiveness in social situations. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All fights reserved.

Journal Title

Journal of Fluency Disorders

Volume

27

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

319

Last Page

331

WOS Identifier

WOS:000180005400004

ISSN

0094-730X

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