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Traits attributed to stuttering and nonstuttering children by their mothers

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In another study as mentioned in this paper, mothers of school-aged male stutterers were found to perceive their children as being more insecure, sensitive, anxious, withdrawn, fearful, and introverted than did mothers of nonstutterers.
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This article is published in Journal of Fluency Disorders.The article was published on 1978-12-01. It has received 87 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Stuttering & Personality.

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Temperamental Characteristics of Young Children Who Stutter.

TL;DR: Assessment of temperamental characteristics of children who do (CWS) and do not (CWNS) stutter using a norm-referenced parent-report questionnaire suggests that CWS are more apt, when compared to CWNS, to exhibit temperamental profiles consistent with hypervigilance.
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Relation of emotional reactivity and regulation to childhood stuttering

TL;DR: It is suggested that the relatively greater emotional reactivity experienced by preschool children who stutter, together with their relative inability to flexibly control their attention and regulate the emotions they experience, may contribute to the difficulties these children have establishing reasonably fluent speech and language.
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The relationship between anxiety and stuttering: a multidimensional approach

TL;DR: Examination of the relationship between anxiety and stuttering within the framework of the multidimensional interaction model of anxiety indicates that anxiety is a personality trait of people who stutter.
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Temperament dimensions in stuttering and typically developing children

TL;DR: Data is provided that support the hypothesis that CWS and TDC differ on both composite temperament factors and temperament scales and possible pathways for interaction between temperament and the development of stuttering are explained.
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Pygmalion in the Classroom

TL;DR: The authors conducted an experiment in a public elementary school, telling teachers that certain children could be expected to be growth spurters, based on the students' results on the Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition.
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Traits Attributed to Stuttering and Normally Fluent Males

TL;DR: It was concluded that a strong stereotype of a stutterer's personal characteristics exists, that the stereotype is predominantly unfavorable, thatThe stereotype is essentially unaffected by amount of exposure to actual stutterers, and that the traits attributed to boys and men who stutter are similar.
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