COMPARISON OF SELF-CONCEPT AND SELFSUFFICIENCY AMONG HEARING IMPAIRED VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND ORTHOPEDICALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS

Abstract

Self-concept and Self-sufficiency are the important aspects in our life. Self-concept is the multidimensional construct to perceive physical competence throughout childhood and beyond. Self-sufficiency as a personality trait reflects a person's overall quality or condition of being efficiency. These characteristics are also important among hearing impaired persons, visually impaired persons as well as orthopedically impaired persons. So the study, comparison of self-concept and self-sufficiency among hearing impaired visually impaired and orthopedically impaired persons has been taken into consideration. Forty subjects of each category namely hearing impaired, visually impaired and orthopedically impaired students (having problems in upper limbs) were selected within the age range of twelve to eighteen years for the study. Self-concept was measured by Dr. R. K. Saraswat's Manual of Self-concept Questionnaire and Self-sufficiency was measured by Burn-Reuter Modified Personality Inventory. The data were analyzed through the statistic of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The results indicate that hearing impaired subjects had better self-concept and self-sufficiency than orthopedically impaired and visually impaired subjects. The orthopedically impaired subjects were superior to visually impaired subjects in respect to self-sufficiency and self-concept.