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Male versus female attitudes toward stuttering
1Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6122, USA. kstlouis@wvu.edu
Purpose:
The study investigated the extent to which differences existed between public attitudes of males versus females.
Method:
One hundred adults, 50 males and 50 females, were chosen at random from each of 50 study samples comprising a total of 3371 respondents in a database archive who had completed the Public Opinion Survey of Human Attribute-Stuttering (POSHA-S). None of the database samples included speech-language pathology students/practitioners or self-identified people who stutter.
Results:
Public attitudes were very similar between male and female respondents. None of the standard POSHA-S comparisons were significantly different statistically, even though a few trends for differences were observed between the males and females.
Conclusions:
Attitudes as toward stuttering of adult males and females, as measured by the POSHA-S, are very similar.
Learning Outcomes:
Readers of this article should be able to: describe the framework for reporting the results of the Public Opinion Survey of Human Attributes-Stuttering (POSHA-S); describe similarities and differences between attitudes toward stuttering of adult males and females on the POSHA-S.
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