Social Phobia and Its Relation to Demographic Characteristics in Adults with Stuttering Disorder

The aim of the present study was to determine social phobia and its relationship with demographic characteristics in adults with stuttering disorder.
The present descriptive-analytic study conducted among 30 adults 18 years and older (25 male, 5 female) with stuttering disorder with high school diploma or higher education certificates. Stuttering and its severity were examined by "Severity of Stuttering Instrument-3rd edition". Social phobia measured by "Social Phobia Inventory". Data were analyzed via SPSS software using Spearman, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal Wallis tests.
Findings indicated that 26% of adults (8 of 30 people) had high level of social phobia. There was no significant relationship between social phobia and age (r=0.075, p=0.696). Also there were no significant differences in level of social phobia between women and men and subjects with different level of education (p=0.148, p=0.357).
Social phobia is not related to demographic characteristics like age, gender or education in adult with stuttering disorder.