Relationships Between Certain Aspects Of Personality And Some Vocal Effects Of Delayed Speech Feedback

Abstract

The vocal responses of 150 young college males as related to personality were studied under the conditions of synchronous and delayed speech feedback. Increases in vocal intensity variation appear to be positively related to inadequacy and instability of the self-conceptual system with negative self-attitudes and poor general personality, paranoid behavioral tendencies and negatively related to degree of ethnocentric and/or non-ethnocentric beliefs. Decreases in vocal intensity variation appear to be significantly and positively related to schizoid, socially withdrawing and isolating modes of behavioral adjustment. Changes in the investigated voice variables due to delayed speech feedback other than those which occurred in vocal intensity variation cannot be reliably associated with any of the measured aspects of personality.