Title

A Comparative Investigation Of The Bigcat And Erickson S-24 Measures Of Speech-Associated Attitude

Keywords

Adults who stutter; BigCAT; Communication Attitude Test; Erickson S-24; Speech-associated attitude

Abstract

The BigCAT and the Erickson S-24, self-report measures of communication attitude, were administered in a randomly determined order to 72 adults who stuttered (PWS) and 72 who did not (PWNS). The two groups of participants differed from each other to a statistically significant extent on both of these measures of speech-associated attitude, regardless of gender. However, the BigCAT showed a larger between-group difference and a greater effect size than was made apparent by the S-24. These findings, and the presence of a significant group by test interaction, suggest that the BigCAT is the more powerful of these two test procedures for discriminating the speech-associated attitude of PWS from that of PWNS. It follows from this that the BigCAT is likely a more useful attitudinal measure than the S-24 with respect to clinical decision making that relates to differential diagnostic assessment and the management of stuttering.Learning outcomes: The reader will be (1) describe the BigCAT, a communication attitude test for adults who do and do not stutter, (2) discuss comparative data on the BigCAT and the Erickson S-24, based on information on the discriminative power of these measures of speech-associated attitude, (3) recognize that gender does not significantly effect the results of either the BigCAT or the Erickson S-24. © 2012 Elsevier Inc.

Publication Date

9-1-2012

Publication Title

Journal of Communication Disorders

Volume

45

Issue

5

Number of Pages

340-347

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2012.06.001

Socpus ID

84864499282 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84864499282

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