| OVERALL STUTTERING SCORE | 7 | 18 | 14 |
| Beliefs about people who stutter | 26 | 33 | 29 |
| Traits / personality | 30 | 21 | 63 |
| Have themselves to blamea | 75 | 84 | 34 |
| Nervous or excitablea | 31 | –3 | 78 |
| Shy or fearfula | –15 | –17 | 49 |
| Stuttering should be helped by . . . | –1 | 16 | 10 |
| Speech and language therapist | 79 | 95 | 15 |
| Other people who stutter | –34 | –4 | 17 |
| Medical doctora | –49 | –39 | 31 |
| Stuttering is caused by . . . | 35 | 33 | 47 |
| Generic inheritance | 39 | 18 | 72 |
| Learning or habita | 0 | 26 | 27 |
| A very frightening eventa | –7 | –2 | 42 |
| An act of Goda | 75 | 62 | 62 |
| A virus or diseasea | 19 | 39 | 15 |
| Ghosts, demons, spiritsa | 82 | 90 | 27 |
| Potential | 39 | 67 | 5 |
| Can make friends | 69 | 93 | 9 |
| Can lead normal lives | 70 | 89 | 12 |
| Can do any job they want | 37 | 54 | 32 |
| Should have jobs requiring good judgment | –21 | 42 | 2 |
| Self-reactions to people who stutter | –11 | 3 | 8 |
| Accommodating / helping | 31 | 44 | 21 |
| Try to act like the person was talking normally | 63 | 84 | 14 |
| Person like me | –12 | –29 | 60 |
| Fill in the person’s wordsa | 49 | 35 | 60 |
| Tell the person to “slow down” or “relax”a | –58 | 13 | 8 |
| Make joke about stutteringa | 91 | 90 | 49 |
| Should try to hide their stutteringa | 54 | 76 | 16 |
| Social distance / sympathy | 8 | 19 | 40 |
| Fell comfortable or relaxed | 37 | 37 | 50 |
| Feel pitya | 70 | 16 | 93 |
| Feel impatient (not want to wait while the person stutters)a | 76 | 63 | 69 |
| Concern about my doctora | –24 | 46 | 7 |
| Concern about my neighbora | 34 | 77 | 22 |
| Concern about my brother or sistera | –22 | 7 | 34 |
| Concern about mea | –42 | –32 | 44 |
| Impression of person who stutters | 1 | 2 | 36 |
| Want to have stuttering | –60 | –65 | 75 |
| Knowledge / experience | –49 | –34 | 14 |
| Amount known about stuttering | –25 | –31 | 50 |
| Stutterers known | –91 | –86 | 12 |
| Personal experience (me, my family, friends) | –31 | 18 | 9 |
| Knowledge source | –35 | –11 | 7 |
| Television, radio, films | –9 | 12 | 28 |
| Magazines, newspapers, books | –45 | –14 | 15 |
| Internet | –22 | –27 | 36 |
| School | –40 | –8 | 11 |
| Doctors, nurses, other specialists | –60 | –31 | 15 |
| Obesity / mental illness subscore | –41 | –35 | 23 |
| Overall impression | –20 | –15 | 30 |
| Obese | –13 | –20 | 59 |
| Mentally ill | –26 | –8 | 19 |
| Want to be | –70 | –79 | 85 |
| Obese | –69 | –79 | 85 |
| Mentally ill | –71 | –80 | 85 |
| Amount known about | –33 | –9 | 10 |
| Obese | –15 | 3 | 18 |
| Mentally ill | –51 | –18 | 6 |