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dc.contributor.authorHennessey, Neville
dc.contributor.authorDourado, E.
dc.contributor.authorBeilby, Janet
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:46:32Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:46:32Z
dc.date.created2014-07-22T20:00:24Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationHennessey, N. and Dourado, E. and Beilby, J. 2014. Anxiety and speaking in people who stutter: An investigation using the emotional Stroop task. Journal of Fluency Disorders. 40: pp. 44-57.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25053
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jfludis.2013.11.001
dc.description.abstract

People with anxiety disorders show an attentional bias towards threat or negative emotion words. This exploratory study examined whether people who stutter (PWS), who can be anxious when speaking, show similar bias and whether reactions to threat words also influence speech motor planning and execution. Comparisons were made between 31 PWS and 31 fluent controls in a modified emotional Stroop task where, depending on a visual cue, participants named the colour of threat and neutral words at either a normal or fast articulation rate. In a manual version of the same task participants pressed the corresponding colour button with either a long or short duration. PWS but not controls were slower to respond to threat words than neutral words, however, this emotionality effect was only evident for verbal responding. Emotionality did not interact with speech rate, but the size of the emotionality effect among PWS did correlate with frequency of stuttering. Results suggest PWS show an attentional bias to threat words similar to that found in people with anxiety disorder. In addition, this bias appears to be contingent on engaging the speech pro-duction system as a response modality. No evidence was found to indicate that emotional reactivity during the Stroop task constrains or destabilises, perhaps via arousal mechanisms, speech motor adjustment or execution for PWS.

dc.publisherElsevier
dc.subjectSpeech motor control
dc.subjectAttentional bias
dc.subjectAnxiety
dc.subjectEmotional Stroop
dc.subjectStuttering
dc.titleAnxiety and speaking in people who stutter: An investigation using the emotional Stroop task
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume40
dcterms.source.startPage44
dcterms.source.endPage57
dcterms.source.issn0094-730X
dcterms.source.titleJournal of Fluency Disorders
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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in the Journal of Fluency Disorders. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in the Journal of Fluency Disorders, Vol.40, (2014). DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2013.11.001

curtin.departmentSchool of Psychology
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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