The Visually Handicapped

Meyerson, Lee

doi:10.2307/1169127

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“…Based on the research of Barker (1948), Bauman (1954), Fitting (1953), Meyerson (1953), andRaskin (1953), a Social Adjustment Scale was developed as a preliminary step to permit measurement of social adaptability to blindness. The scale was a rating device based on a series of check list items which indicated the blind individual's level of social maturity or acquisition of appropriate skills in 10 problem areas: employment, travel, indoor orientation, socialization, communication, recreation, eating problems, dressing problems, business problems, and physical hygiene.…”

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Magical thinking and associated psychological reactions to blindness.

Zarlock¹

1961

Journal of Consulting Psychology

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"52 blind subjects were rated on the Social Adjustment Scale and then tested for ego strength, manifest anxiety, attitudes towards blindness, attitudes towards the efficacy of medicine and religion to restore health, and degrees of antidemocratic personality." The maladjusted believed in a miraculous cure from medicine or religion. The socially adapted and matched normals showed no differences. From Psyc Abstracts 36:04:4JC55Z.

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Magical thinking and associated psychological reactions to blindness.

Zarlock¹

1961

Journal of Consulting Psychology

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“…The Blind and Partially Seeing SAMUEL C. ASHCROFT REMARKABLE developments, difficult to encompass in a brief review, have characterized study of the visually handicapped since 1953, when Meyerson's useful work (39) appeared. This review, therefore, is highly selective and deals largely with the literature pointing up marked trends during the period.…”

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