Public Attitudes toward Stuttering in Poland

Autor/inn/en	Przepiorka, Aneta M.; Blachnio, Agata; St. Louis, Kenneth O.; Wozniak, Tomasz
Titel	Public Attitudes toward Stuttering in Poland
Quelle	In: International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 48 (2013) 6, S.703-714 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1368-2822
DOI	10.1111/1460-6984.12041
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Stuttering; Social Attitudes; Public Opinion; Attitudes toward Disabilities; Social Bias; Adolescent Attitudes; Adults; Social Isolation; Urban Areas; Rural Areas; Surveys; Poland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Stammer; Stottern; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Öffentliche Meinung; Soziale Isolation; Urban area; Stadtregion; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Polen
Abstract	Background: People who stutter often experience negative judgments and reactions to their stuttering from the nonstuttering majority. Many are stigmatized because of their stuttering and threatened with social exclusion, placing them at risk for compromised quality of life. Aims: The purpose of this investigation was to measure public attitudes toward stuttering in Poland. Methods & Procedures: A sample of 268 respondents (mean age = 29 years; range = 15-60 years) from numerous different geographic and urban-rural settings in Poland filled out a Polish translation of the "Public Opinion Survey of Human Attributes-Stuttering" ("POSHA-S"). Outcomes & Results: Polish respondents displayed attitudes toward stuttering and people who stutter that were generally similar or "average" in comparison with other samples around the world from the "POSHA-S" database. Conclusions & Implications: Although generally typical of other Western societies studied, attitudes of adolescents and adults from Poland were notably different in some ways, such as in the beliefs that emotional trauma or viruses and disease can cause stuttering as well as in the self reaction that they would feel uncomfortable speaking with a stuttering person. Overall, social exclusion and stigma are as likely among Poles who stutter as among most other populations studied. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10