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 Volume 10, Issue 5 (May 2023), Pages: 28-32

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 Original Research Paper

Socio-demographic variables related to self-concept among school-aged children who stutter and their normal peers

 Author(s): 

 Nawal A. Aboalola *

 Affiliation(s):

 Department of Special Education, College of Education, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9444-4873

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2023.05.004

 Abstract:

The aim of this study is to compare levels of self-concept among school-aged children who stutter and their normal peers according to Socio-demographic variables. Sixty school-aged children (30 stuttering children, and 30 non-stuttering peers) were purposively sampled through the snowball approach. 10 persons out of the 70 were subsequently pulled out of the study because of their history of hearing difficulties. Hence, 30 stuttering children, and 30 non-stuttering peers were finally selected for the study. A descriptive study was designed to compare levels of self-concept among school-aged children who stutter and their normal peers according to Socio-demographic variables. Using IBM SPSS v.26, the study utilized a t-test to determine the difference between the two groups. A p-value level of statistical significance of<.05 was likewise considered. Results showed that there was a statistically significant difference at the significance level of 0.01 between the mean scores of the stuttering (M= 19.57, SD=4.54) and normal children (M=24.37, SD=1.92) with higher rates for the normal. There was no statistically significant difference between the mean score of the male (n=15, M=19.57, SD=1.54) and female (n=15, M=19.67, SD=1.03) stuttering children.

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Self-concept, School-aged children, Stutter, Normal peers

 Article History: Received 16 August 2022, Received in revised form 9 November 2022, Accepted 11 February 2023

 Acknowledgment 

The author would like to thank the children who voluntarily and willingly participated in the study.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Informed consent

Informed consent was obtained from all children's parents for the purpose of maintaining their rights to anonymity and confidentiality.

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Aboalola NA (2023). Socio-demographic variables related to self-concept among school-aged children who stutter and their normal peers. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 10(5): 28-32

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