Anxiety, Social Phobia, Depression, and Suicide among People Who Stutter; A Review Study

Social Reactions Affecting the Severity of Stuttering among Adults who Stutter: A Qualitative Study

Introduction: Stuttering is a disorder associated with many social and social consequences for those who stutter. Regarding the decisive role of social reactions in exacerbating or reducing many psychological problems such as stuttering and the culture-related nature of social behaviors, this study was conducted to assess social reactions affecting the severity of stuttering among Iranian adult...

Social Anxiety among Chinese People

The experience of social anxiety has largely been investigated among Western populations; much less is known about social anxiety in other cultures. Unlike the Western culture, the Chinese emphasize interdependence and harmony with social others. In addition, it is unclear if Western constructed instruments adequately capture culturally conditioned conceptualizations and manifestations of socia...

Shyness, Social Anxiety, and Social Phobia

Anxiety levels in adolescents who stutter.

UNLABELLED High levels of anxiety can negatively affect the lives of children and adolescents. Thirty-six adolescents who stutter and 36 adolescents who do not stutter were administered standardized scales for anxiety and self-esteem. Significant differences were found for the total T-scores for Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale for the two groups, although both groups mean T-scores wer...

Protective Factors in the Inuit Population of Nunavut: A Comparative Study of People Who Died by Suicide, People Who Attempted Suicide, and People Who Never Attempted Suicide

Epidemiological data shows an alarming prevalence of suicide in Aboriginal populations around the world. In Canada, the highest rates are found in Inuit communities. In this article, we present the findings of a secondary analysis conducted with data previously collected as part of a larger study of psychological autopsies conducted in Nunavut, Canada. The objective of this secondary analysis w...

Perception of disfluency in people who stutter and people who do not stutter: Results from magnitude estimation

Recent accounts of stuttering [7], [15] consider disfluencies the result of an interaction between speech planning and selfmonitoring, emphasizing the continuity between errors made in everyday speech and those made by people who stutter. On Vasic & Wijnen’s [14], [15] account, the monitor is hypervigilant for upcoming problems and interrupts and restarts the speech signal, resulting in disflue...