There Is More to Cluttering than Meets the Eye: The Prevalence of Cluttering and Association with Psychological Well-Being Indices in an Undergraduate Sample

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Autor/inn/en	Icht, Michal; Zukerman, Gil; Zigdon, Avi; Korn, Liat
Titel	There Is More to Cluttering than Meets the Eye: The Prevalence of Cluttering and Association with Psychological Well-Being Indices in an Undergraduate Sample
Quelle	In: International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 58 (2023) 6, S.2022-2032 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Icht, Michal)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1368-2822
DOI	10.1111/1460-6984.12917
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Language Impairments; Language Fluency; Speech Communication; Speech Impairments; Incidence; Relationship; Well Being; Psychological Patterns; Self Concept; Social Indicators; Mental Health; Psychosomatic Disorders; Depression (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Self Esteem; Adjustment (to Environment); Cultural Influences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Language handicps; Language impairments; Vorkommen; Wechselbeziehung; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Selbstkonzept; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Psychohygiene; Disease of psychosomatic origin; Psychosomatische Krankheit; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss
Abstract	Background: Cluttering is a fluency disorder characterized by an abnormally fast or irregular speech delivery rate along with disfluencies that are frequent but are not judged to be stuttering. Data on cluttering prevalence in the general population are scarce, as well as its association with psychological well-being indices, such as anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Aims: To estimate cluttering prevalence among undergraduates, as well as its relationship with psychological and well-being indicators. Methods & Procedures: To address these issues, a large sample (n = 1582) of undergraduates completed a questionnaire that provided a lay definition of cluttering and were asked to identify themselves as clutterers (SI-Clut), as well as to indicate the presence of several psychological and mental well-being indices. Outcomes & Results: A total of 276 respondents (23%) self-identified as clutterers (now or in the past), with 55.1% of those being male. Only 56 respondents (3.5% of the total sample; about 21% of SI-Clut) reported having received speech therapy for cluttering. Relative to students self-identifying as non-clutterers, self-identification of cluttering was associated with higher levels of psychosomatic symptoms, depressive symptoms and stress, indicating a tendency toward internalizing psychopathology, along with lower self-esteem, and lower subjective happiness. Conclusions & Implications: The current findings point to the high prevalence of students self-identifying as clutterers, along with a significant link between cluttering and mental distress. Therefore, it is important to increase public awareness of cluttering, its diagnosis and treatment. From the clinical perspective, the elevated levels of somatic complaints, anxiety and depression may represent internalizing psychopathology, associated with more covert rather than overt symptomatology. Such symptom manifestation calls for special attention from the speech-language pathologists providing cluttering therapy, using designated well-being or mental health screening tools. Although data on standard cluttering treatment are limited, it should be customized to the client's unique difficulties. Speech-language pathologists' understanding of cluttering, which includes both speech characteristics as well as psychological and social aspects of well-being, may assist them in implementing effective treatments. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01