Personality Traits of Children With Vocal Fold Nodules

[en] This is a case-control study investigating the personality profiles of children with vocal fold nodules (VFNs). Personality has been suggested as a contributing factor to VFN in adults and in children. However, previous studies in children have focused on psychopathologic traits and have reported contradictory findings. The aim of our study was to explore whether general, nonpathologic personality structure predicts the presence of VFN in children. Personality traits were measured in 34 children with VFN, aged 6.0–13.6, and 34 age- and sex-matched normophonic controls by means of a pediatric five-factor personality questionnaire. Children with VFN were found to be significantly more extroverted than controls (P = 0.022, d = 0.61), and a binary logistic regression showed that extraversion significantly predicted the presence of VFN in our population (P = 0.027). The clinical implications of the results are discussed. © 2018 The Voice Foundation

Disciplines :

Otolaryngology

Author, co-author :

Verduyckt, Ingrid; Université de Montréal - UdeM > École d'orthophonie et d'audiologie,

Rhéault, Cécile; Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada > École d'orthophonie et d'audiologie,

Remacle, Marc; CHL, Luxembourg, Luxembourg > Department of Oto-rhino-laryngology,

Morsomme, Dominique ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Logopédie > Logopédie des troubles de la voix

Language :

English

Title :

Personality Traits of Children With Vocal Fold Nodules

Publication date :

2019

Journal title :

Journal of Voice

ISSN :

0892-1997

eISSN :

1873-4588

Publisher :

Mosby, United States - Missouri

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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