A STUDY TO ASSESS THE LEVEL OF SELF ESTEEM AND COPING STRATEGIES AMONG HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN IN A SELECTED SPECIAL SCHOOLS OF PUNJAB AND TAMILNADU
Self esteem, Coping strategies, hearing impaired children, special schools
Introduction & Background: Children are the ones who are very vital for deciding how the world is going to be after some years. So if one can do some good in the life of a child then there can be change, at least a slightest change, in the world to come.(4) The WHO definition of ‘hearing impairment’ refers to both complete and partial loss of ability to hear. (1)As of February 2017, 360 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss, and 32 million of these are children. Around 60% of childhood hearing loss is due to preventable causes. About 1.1 billion young people aged between 12–35 years are at risk of hearing loss due to exposure to noise in recreational settings. There are a number of coping strategies deaf people may adopt to manage their everyday lives and protect their self-esteem. These include withdrawal into a deaf community, covering, and developing bicultural skills. Withdrawal from society into a community of similar others can help to protect self-esteem, but at the same time it sets limits on those who adopt this strategy. Studies that looked at levels of self-esteem in a more heterogeneous group of hearing impaired (HI) children showed inconsistent results. When compared to normal hearing (NH) peers, some researchers reported lower self-esteem in children with mild to profound hearing losses, while others demonstrated that levels of self-esteem were similar to those of NH counterparts. The primary aim of the study is to assess the level of self-esteem and coping strategies used by the hearing impaired students with the view to encourage parents and teachers to impart the ways of increasing self-esteem and to assist them in developing adaptive coping mechanisms for hearing impaired children in order to improve their psychological health and psychosocial adaptation. Methodology: This study adopted a non-experimental descriptive research design where the independent variable has already occurred and the researcher cannot manipulate them. 500 hearing impaired children from ten selected special schools of Punjab and Tamilnadu were participated in study. Non probability convenient sampling technique was adopted for selection of samples. Modified State self-esteem scale and Modified Lazarus and Folkman coping scale was used to collect the data from samples. Ethical principles were observed during the study. Results: Findings shows that 22(4.4%) HI children are having severely low self-esteem, 186(36.2%) HI children are having moderately low self-esteem, 197(39.4%) HI children are having mild low self-esteem and 95(19%) HI children are having fairly good self-esteem. With regard to overall coping strategies, 21(4.2%) HI children are using this strategy to somewhat, 318(63.6%) HI children are using quite a bit and 161(32.2%) HI children are using a great deal.
"A STUDY TO ASSESS THE LEVEL OF SELF ESTEEM AND COPING STRATEGIES AMONG HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN IN A SELECTED SPECIAL SCHOOLS OF PUNJAB AND TAMILNADU", TIJER - TIJER - INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL (www.TIJER.org), ISSN:2349-9249, Vol.12, Issue 4, page no.a643-a650, April-2025, Available :https://tijer.org/TIJER/papers/TIJER2504096.pdf
Volume 12
Issue 4,
April-2025
Pages : a643-a650
Paper Reg. ID: TIJER_157520
Published Paper Id: TIJER2504096
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Research Area: Health Science All
Country: Palakkad, Kerala, India
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