The temperamental characteristic of extraversion in Slovenian preschool children who stutter

Novšak Brce, Jerneja (author), Kogovšek, Damjana (author), Jerman, Janez (author), Košir, Stanislav (author)

Different authors agree that stuttering is a multifactorial disorder that manifests itself in verbal, psychological, physiological, physical and social fields and requires corresponding evaluation, diagnosis and treatment (Conture 2001; Logan, Yaruss, 1999; Vanryckeghem, Brutten, 1997; Zebrowski, Kelly, 2002). Contemporary research links the development of stuttering with certain temperamental characteristics, among which extraversion plays an important role. The aim of this study was to investigate one such temperamental characteristic – extraversion – in Slovenian preschool children who stutter and to compare these children with their fluently-speaking peers. Using a parent administered questionnaire (Inventory of Children’s Individual Differences, Zupančič, Kavčič, 2009), extraversion as a temperamental characteristic was assessed in 49 children who stutter and in 75 children who do not stutter. All children were aged between 3 and 6 years. The results demonstrated that preschool children who stutter achieved, on average, a statistically significantly lower score on the dimension of extraversion than preschool children who do not stutter. Accordingly, children who stutter are not as extraverted, active, sociable and open to experience as children who speak fluently.

• Language: English
• Keywords: stuttering, temperamental characteristics, extraversion, preschool children
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2017
• Number of pages: Str. 6-12
• Numbering: Vol. 7, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-95198
• UDC: 376-056.264
• ISSN on article: 1849-4706
• DOI: 10.31299/log.7.1.2
• COBISS.SI-ID: 11703369

Copyright

Podatek o licenci CC BY-NC 4.0 je naveden na spletni strani revije (https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/logopedija) (Datum opombe: 2. 9. 2025)

• Publication date in RUL: 19.09.2017

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Logopedija
• Shortened title: Logopedija
• Publisher: Hrvatsko logopedsko društvo, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet. Znanstveno-učilišni kampus
• ISSN: 1849-4706
• COBISS.SI-ID: 11702345

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Description: A creative commons license that bans commercial use, but the users don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: temperament, ekstravertiranost, govorna motnja