Measuring Public Attitudes Toward Stuttering: Test-retest Reliability Revisited

• 발행기관: 한국언어재활사협회
• 저자명: Kenneth O. St. Louis Elizabeth Fisher Aliveto Mohyeddin Teimouri Sangani Salman Abdi Hossein Rezai Fauzia Abdalla Aneta Przepiórka Agata Błachnio Katarzyna Węsierska Lejla Junuzović-Žunić Sarah Eisert Chelsea Kuhn Roche Isabella Reichel Ann Beste-Guldborg Timothy Flynn Benjamin Bolton-Grant Sheryl Gottwald Sara Spears Daniel Hudock Jessica Hartley Mariswamy Pushpavathi Kia N. Johnson
• 간행물 정보: 『Clinical Archives of Communication Disorders』Vol.9 No.2, 93~104쪽, 전체 12쪽
• 주제분류: 의약학 > 의학일반
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2024.08.31

국문 초록

Purpose: Previous studies of the Public Opinion Survey of Human Attributes-Stuttering (POSHA-S), using test and retest designs in modest-sized samples, have reported satisfactory test-retest reliability, i.e., correlations of about 0.80. Simultaneously, lower but moderate correlations between different first and second test respondents were observed and hypothesized to represent unspecified “societal” influences on stuttering attitudes. This study sought to clarify this and other potential relationships between first and second tests with the POSHA-S in a large, geographically and linguistically diverse sample. Methods: POSHA-S Overall Stuttering Scores (OSSs) of 345 respondents from 12 test-retest samples from four countries and languages, with no intervening interventions, were analyzed with correlations and by grouping respondents according to whose stuttering attitudes improved, remained the same, or worsened from test to retest. Results: Test and retest OSSs generally conformed to normal distributions and were not significantly different. Correlations between first versus second tests replicated earlier research. However, when the degree and direction of change from test to retest was considered, both in other correlations and in sorts of respondents, unexpected results emerged. Respondents with intermediate attitudes changed minimally, while those with most and least positive attitudes at the first test changed in opposite directions past the overall mean at second test. Conclusions: While demonstrating adequate test-retest reliability correlations on the POSHAS, public attitudes were found to be less stable than previously assumed.

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Stuttering Public attitudes Reliability POSHA-S