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The Relationship of Attitudes and Intentions to Behave to the Acquisition of Fluent Speech Behaviour by Stammerers
Author(s) -
STEWART TRUDY MILDON
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682828209012215
Subject(s) - fluency , psychology , value (mathematics) , verbal fluency test , processing fluency , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , cognition , mathematics education , computer science , machine learning , neuroscience , neuropsychology
This study applied the Fishbein and Ajzen model of attitude, intention and behaviour to stammerers' evaluations and use of their disfluent speech and a fluency controlling speech pattern. Subjects were eight adult stammerers who participated in an eight week group therapy programme. The model advocated a positive relationship between subjects' attitudes and intention to use their own disfluent speech and a fluency controlling technique. A positive relationship was also hypothesized between their intentions to use disfluent speech and their intentions to use the fluency controlling technique, and their fluency gains measured after the completion of the therapy programme. The results supported the relationships proposed by the model and confirmed its value in predicting fluency gains on the basis of pre therapy attitude and intention scores.