Investigation of the Relationships Between Voice Feminization and Voice Quality of Life of the Male-to-Female Transsexualism ,by Auditory Perceptions Judgment

• Main Authors: Mei-Yi Wang, 王美宜
• Other Authors: Sheng Hwa Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82047501230900921771

碩士 === 國立臺北護理健康大學 === 聽語障礙科學研究所 === 102 === The purpose of this study is to explore the relationships between listener's perception, speaker's perception, and voice related quality of life (VRQoL) of male to female transsexualisms (MtF TS), as well as the relationship between demography, treatments, and VRQoL. Twenty MtF TS completed Questionnaires including 1) demography and treatment information; 2) vocal femininity rating scale; 3) Rating of Transsexualism Voice Questionnaire(TVQ) . Twenty college students as auditory judges reviews voice recording sample from MtF TS in reading passage with " vocal femininity rating scale".Pearson correlation is used to analyze the relationship between self-perception of vocal femininity, observers' perception of MtF TS vocal femininity; Spearman Rank Correlation and Stepwise regression are used to analyze the relationship between MtF TS demography information, and their VRQoL. The results show moderate correlation between self- perception auditory perception judgement of MtF TS vocal femininity and the VRQoL of MtF TS. There is no significant correlation between social psychological score in the VRQoL Questionnaire and the listener's auditory perception judgement of MtF TS vocal femininity. Moderate correlation was found between Hormone therapy or whole female make up length and the VRQoL of MtF TS. Self-perception vocal femininity is the major factor inflence VRQoL. Self-perception rating scale and the VRQoL questionnaire can be used as a tool to assess the efficacy of voice therapy toward MtF TS clients for Speech Language Pathologists.Whole female make up length as a way to promote VRQoL of MtF TS. Key words: male to female transsexualisms, Voice related Quality of Life, self- perception of vocal femininity, observer's perception of vocal femininity