Vanryckeghem Martine, Brutten Gene J
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, FL 32816, USA.
J Commun Disord. 2012 Sep-Oct;45(5):340-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2012.06.001. Epub 2012 Jun 16.
The BigCAT and the Erickson S-24, self-report measures of communication attitude, were administered in a randomly determined order to 72 adults who stuttered (PWS) and 72 who did not (PWNS). The two groups of participants differed from each other to a statistically significant extent on both of these measures of speech-associated attitude, regardless of gender. However, the BigCAT showed a larger between-group difference and a greater effect size than was made apparent by the S-24. These findings, and the presence of a significant group by test interaction, suggest that the BigCAT is the more powerful of these two test procedures for discriminating the speech-associated attitude of PWS from that of PWNS. It follows from this that the BigCAT is likely a more useful attitudinal measure than the S-24 with respect to clinical decision making that relates to differential diagnostic assessment and the management of stuttering.
The reader will be (1) describe the BigCAT, a communication attitude test for adults who do and do not stutter, (2) discuss comparative data on the BigCAT and the Erickson S-24, based on information on the discriminative power of these measures of speech-associated attitude, (3) recognize that gender does not significantly effect the results of either the BigCAT or the Erickson S-24.
对72名口吃成年人（PWS）和72名非口吃成年人（PWNS）以随机确定的顺序进行了BigCAT和埃里克森S - 24这两种沟通态度的自我报告测量。在这两种与言语相关态度的测量中，无论性别如何，两组参与者在统计学上都有显著差异。然而，与S - 24相比，BigCAT显示出更大的组间差异和更大的效应量。这些发现以及显著的组间与测试交互作用表明，在区分口吃者与非口吃者的言语相关态度方面，BigCAT是这两种测试程序中更有效的。由此可见，在与口吃的鉴别诊断评估和管理相关的临床决策方面，BigCAT可能比S - 24更有用处。
读者将能够（1）描述BigCAT，一种针对口吃和非口吃成年人的沟通态度测试，（2）基于这些与言语相关态度测量的鉴别力信息，讨论BigCAT和埃里克森S -24的比较数据，（3）认识到性别对BigCAT或埃里克森S -24的结果均无显著影响。
