Abstrakt: | The article discusses the factors determining the occurrence of voice emission problems,
including internal, external, and psychosocial ones. It was proposed to distinguish the psychological
/ psychosocial factors as a separate group. The results of the research conducted among teachers
(N = 265) in schools in the Silesian provinces show how psychological factors affect the self-assessment
of voice (emotional, functional, and physical, measured by means of the Voice Handicap Index
scale); these factors are: the level of perceived stress (PSS10), anxiety (STAI I and II – anxiety as a trait
and anxiety as a state), self-assessment (SES) and life satisfaction (SWLS). The article describes the
results of original research on the dependence of psychosocial factors and voice disability. |