Self Rating talkativeness scale

• Use a seven point scale from 1 to 7
  • Rate your innate degree of talkativeness
  • This is your ongoing tendancy to talk, given the opportunity to talk
  • Do not include the amount of talking required of you at work in this estimation

• Where do you fall on this rating scale of innate talkativeness?
  • If you have a mucosal disorder, most likely you are a 6 or a 7.
  • Do not confuse being a 6 or a 7 with anything bad. This is a wonderful personality. You may typically find yourself the life of the party, the social engine.
  • 6’s and 7’s make wonderful actors and singers since your personality is one that will engage the audience.
  • However, being a 6 or 7 can be a vocally expensive personality.
• I have never seen a 1. Presumably someone with that little of an interest in talking wound not mind if their voice did not work.
• 2, 3 and 4’s are at risk for bowing and vocal cord atrophy type disorders.

References

• Bastian RW, Thomas, JP. Talkativeness and Vocal Loudness: Do They Correlate With Laryngeal Pathology? - A Study of the Vocal Overdoer/Underdoer Continuum

Updated 8 March 2002 top