title: A comparative investigation of the BigCAT and Erickson S-24 measures of speech-associated attitude.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  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.
authors: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, FL 32816, USA. martinev@ucf.edu
authors: Martine
authors: M
authors: Vanryckeghem
authors: Gene J
authors: GJ
authors: Brutten
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000592:standards; D013060:Speech; D013342:Stuttering / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult