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KMID : 1022420230150010055
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2023 Volume.15 No. 1 p.55 ~ p.64
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Perception of military officers towards the military adaptation of adults who stutter and the associated factors
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Park Hye-Rin
Park Jin
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Abstract
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This study investigated the factors influencing the perceptions that military officers can harbor regarding persons who stutter in terms of how well they can adapt to the army. In total, 89 participants were randomly assigned to each of the three different conditions (“fluent speech”=23, “mildly stuttered speech”=34, and “severely stuttered speech”=32). Subsequently, the participants were asked to listen and rate each sample in terms of “the speaker’s communicative functioning (i.e., speech fluency, intelligibility, naturalness, speech rate), personal traits (i.e., likeability, anxiety level, intellectual level, and sociability), and the perceived degree of the adaptability to the army.” The results showed that significant differences were found between “fluent speech” and “severely stuttered speech” in the perceived communicative functionings and the perceived adaptability to the army. Moreover, there were significant differences in the same variables between “mildly stuttered speech” and “severely stuttered speech.” However, there were no significant differences between “mildly stuttered speech” and “fluent speech.” Following the conducting of the Pearson correlation test, strong correlations were also found between the perceived communicative functionings, in particular “speech fluency,” and the perceived adaptability to the army. Those results can be employed to argue that the communicative functionings can serve as factors which influence the perceptions of persons who stutter in terms of how well they can adapt to the army. Further discussion has taken place regarding the relationship between the perceived communicative functionings and the perceived adaptability to the army.
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KEYWORD
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stuttering, perception, military adaptation
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