title: Male versus female attitudes toward stuttering.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The study investigated the extent to which differences existed between public attitudes of males versus females.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6122, USA. kstlouis@wvu.edu
authors.forename: Kenneth O
authors.initials: KO
authors.lastname: St Louis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D013342:Stuttering / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires