Psychological adjustment of visually handicapped children and youth

Ammerman, Robert T.; Hasselt, Vincent B. Van; Hersen, Michel

doi:10.1016/0272-7358(86)90019-x

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“…The adolescent stages did not have a significant relationship with the student’s adjustment, anxiety, frustration and aggression levels. The above results were in line with the findings of already reported studies ( 9 , 21 , 22 ). It could be deduced that most of the visually impaired adolescents make appropriate social and personal adjustments based on their level of frustration.…”

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Assessment of Psychological and Psycho-physiological Problems Among Visually Impaired Adolescents

Bhuvaneswari

Selvaraj

et al. 2016

Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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Background:Visual impairment tends to evoke more discomfiture than any other disability. Primarily, the biggest issue may be that blindness is visible. Furthermore, visual impairment develops serious medical, psychological, social and economic problems.Objectives:The focus of the current study was to investigate the psychological and psycho physiological problems of visually impaired adolescent students.Patients and Methods:Purposive sampling was adopted to select 150 visually impaired students (71 males and 72 females) from five schools in Coimbatore city of the Tamil Nadu state, India. Anxiety, frustration, aggression and social and personal adjustment levels of the visually impaired students were measured in this study using Taylor’s manifest anxiety scale, frustration test, aggression scale and the adolescent adjustment inventory, respectively.Results:Anxiety (χ2 = 185.66, P = 0 at P < 0.01), frustration (χ2 = 167.23, P = 0 at P < 0.01) and aggression (χ2 = 57.66, P = 0 at P < 0.01) were significantly related to adjustment among visually impaired students. The adjustment score had a significant positive correlation with anxiety (r = 0.919, P = 0 at P < 0.01), frustration (r = 0.887, P = 0 at P < 0.01) and aggression levels (r = 0.664, P = 0 at P < 0.01), anxiety was significantly correlated with frustration (r = 0. 961, P = 0 at P < 0.01) and aggression levels (r = 0.727, P < 0.01) and frustration was significantly correlated with aggression level (r = 0. 637, P = 0 at P < 0.01) of visually impaired adolescents. There was a positive relationship between psycho-physiological disorders and anxiety frustration, aggression and adjustment among visually impaired students.Conclusions:Visually impaired students exhibited significant levels of psychological and psycho-physiological problems.

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Assessment of Psychological and Psycho-physiological Problems Among Visually Impaired Adolescents

Bhuvaneswari

Selvaraj

et al. 2016

Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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“…Visually impaired children have limitations due to the problems of vision 13 . Therefore, anxiety and dependency feelings may appear 36 . In addition, visually impaired children and adolescents experience more problems in finding the direction.…”

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Relationship between perceived parenting style with anxiety levels and loneliness in visually impaired children and adolescents

Hamurcu¹,

Kara²,

Cöngöloğlu³

et al. 2016

Arch. Clin. Psychiatry (São Paulo)

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Background: Visual impairment is a risk factor for psychiatric disorders in the affected children and adolescents, but there are only a limited number of studies concerning the mental health characteristics of visually impaired children and adolescents. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine levels of loneliness and anxiety in visually impaired children and adolescents, to analyze parenting style perceived by visually impaired children and adolescents, to compare those with typically controls. Methods: The study included 40 children and adolescents with visually impairment and 34 control group without visual impairment. Sociodemographic data form, the UCLA loneliness scale, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children were used in both groups. The parenting Style Scale was used to determine perceived parental attitudes. Results: This study found more loneliness and trait anxiety levels in visually impaired children and adolescents compared to the control group. Authoritative parenting style was the most frequent type of parental attitude in the visually impaired group. In visual impairment group, loneliness level was higher in subgroups of authoritative and permissive-indulgent parenting style. However, level of trait anxiety was higher in authoritative parenting style subgroup compared to the control group. Discussion: The results of this study showed higher loneliness and anxiety levels in visually impaired children and adolescents. Further studies are needed to determine psychopathological risks in this population.

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“…Ammerman and colleagues (1986) provided evidence demonstrating that blind adolescents tended to be more dependent on others, more introverted and to exhibit enhanced anxiety than sighted adolescents. This might be a very appropriate adjustment to the disease, ensuring that they develop and use reliance on others to help them safely navigate their environment [13] . The current experiments explore the hypothesis that not only the total loss of one of the senses could and should induce personality change, but that intra-individual variability occurring in every sensory system, and leading to intra-individual differences in sensory capacity for each sense, may also influence personality.…”

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Agreeable Smellers and Sensitive Neurotics – Correlations among Personality Traits and Sensory Thresholds

Croy¹,

Springborn²,

Lötsch

et al. 2011

PLoS ONE

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Correlations between personality traits and a wide range of sensory thresholds were examined. Participants (N = 124) completed a personality inventory (NEO-FFI) and underwent assessment of olfactory, trigeminal, tactile and gustatory detection thresholds, as well as examination of trigeminal and tactile pain thresholds. Significantly enhanced odor sensitivity in socially agreeable people, significantly enhanced trigeminal sensitivity in neurotic subjects, and a tendency for enhanced pain tolerance in highly conscientious participants was revealed. It is postulated that varied sensory processing may influence an individual's perception of the environment; particularly their perception of socially relevant or potentially dangerous stimuli and thus, varied with personality.

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Psychological adjustment of visually handicapped children and youth

Cited by 22 publications

References 34 publications

Assessment of Psychological and Psycho-physiological Problems Among Visually Impaired Adolescents

Assessment of Psychological and Psycho-physiological Problems Among Visually Impaired Adolescents

Relationship between perceived parenting style with anxiety levels and loneliness in visually impaired children and adolescents

Agreeable Smellers and Sensitive Neurotics – Correlations among Personality Traits and Sensory Thresholds

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