Male versus female attitudes toward stuttering.

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.