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

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.& COPY; 2023 The Authors. Published by IASE. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).