Anxiety and Hostility in Stuttering

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Abstract
Five male and 6 female stutterers were matched to a group of 26 normal speakers on the Elizur scoring system from Rorschach content of anxiety and hostility scores. All subjects were asked to recall previously-learned material in neutral conditions and in stressful conditions, the neutral conditions being free associations to neutral words and the stressful conditions free associations to emotionally-toned words. Results show that stutterers projected on the Rorschach significantly more content indicative of anxiety and hostility than did non-stutterers. All subjects showed a decrement performance under stress. The stutterers showed a significantly greater decrement than non-stutterers.

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