OVERALL STUTTERING SCORE | 7 | 18 | 14 |
Beliefs about people who stutter | 26 | 33 | 29 |
Traits / personality | 30 | 21 | 63 |
Have themselves to blamea | 75 | 84 | 34 |
Nervous or excitablea | 31 | –3 | 78 |
Shy or fearfula | –15 | –17 | 49 |
Stuttering should be helped by . . . | –1 | 16 | 10 |
Speech and language therapist | 79 | 95 | 15 |
Other people who stutter | –34 | –4 | 17 |
Medical doctora | –49 | –39 | 31 |
Stuttering is caused by . . . | 35 | 33 | 47 |
Generic inheritance | 39 | 18 | 72 |
Learning or habita | 0 | 26 | 27 |
A very frightening eventa | –7 | –2 | 42 |
An act of Goda | 75 | 62 | 62 |
A virus or diseasea | 19 | 39 | 15 |
Ghosts, demons, spiritsa | 82 | 90 | 27 |
Potential | 39 | 67 | 5 |
Can make friends | 69 | 93 | 9 |
Can lead normal lives | 70 | 89 | 12 |
Can do any job they want | 37 | 54 | 32 |
Should have jobs requiring good judgment | –21 | 42 | 2 |
Self-reactions to people who stutter | –11 | 3 | 8 |
Accommodating / helping | 31 | 44 | 21 |
Try to act like the person was talking normally | 63 | 84 | 14 |
Person like me | –12 | –29 | 60 |
Fill in the person’s wordsa | 49 | 35 | 60 |
Tell the person to “slow down” or “relax”a | –58 | 13 | 8 |
Make joke about stutteringa | 91 | 90 | 49 |
Should try to hide their stutteringa | 54 | 76 | 16 |
Social distance / sympathy | 8 | 19 | 40 |
Fell comfortable or relaxed | 37 | 37 | 50 |
Feel pitya | 70 | 16 | 93 |
Feel impatient (not want to wait while the person stutters)a | 76 | 63 | 69 |
Concern about my doctora | –24 | 46 | 7 |
Concern about my neighbora | 34 | 77 | 22 |
Concern about my brother or sistera | –22 | 7 | 34 |
Concern about mea | –42 | –32 | 44 |
Impression of person who stutters | 1 | 2 | 36 |
Want to have stuttering | –60 | –65 | 75 |
Knowledge / experience | –49 | –34 | 14 |
Amount known about stuttering | –25 | –31 | 50 |
Stutterers known | –91 | –86 | 12 |
Personal experience (me, my family, friends) | –31 | 18 | 9 |
Knowledge source | –35 | –11 | 7 |
Television, radio, films | –9 | 12 | 28 |
Magazines, newspapers, books | –45 | –14 | 15 |
Internet | –22 | –27 | 36 |
School | –40 | –8 | 11 |
Doctors, nurses, other specialists | –60 | –31 | 15 |
Obesity / mental illness subscore | –41 | –35 | 23 |
Overall impression | –20 | –15 | 30 |
Obese | –13 | –20 | 59 |
Mentally ill | –26 | –8 | 19 |
Want to be | –70 | –79 | 85 |
Obese | –69 | –79 | 85 |
Mentally ill | –71 | –80 | 85 |
Amount known about | –33 | –9 | 10 |
Obese | –15 | 3 | 18 |
Mentally ill | –51 | –18 | 6 |