Hearing Impaired Student's Peer Relationship And Its Affective Factors In Junior High School

Peer relationship (PR) is the interaction between the people whose age or mental age is almost the same, which plays a more important role in adolescents' social development than the adults play. Good PR promotes the development of social cognition and social ability. Moreover, the student who has good PR may achieve academic success and build up perfect personality. Good PR also can help hearing impaired (HI) students to develop their language, cognition (especial the social cognition), emotion and self-consciousness. Especially within the junior high school times when the students are confronting the problem of self-identity, good PR makes more influence on HI students' self-consciousness and life style.With the junior high school HI students in Shanghai as our subjects, their peer interaction (PI), PR and the factors which impact PR were researched. It was found that these students depended greatly on the school and family as to PI. They regarded friends as companions and helpers and their friendship conception was not so mature.As a whole, junior high school hearing impaired (JHSHI) students' PR was more weakly than the general students. Though the difference in the group level was not so much, but the difference in friendship and the feeling of interaction were notable. The students who had mild hearing impairment, could use both sign language and oral language, or once be educated in normal school may have some advantage in PR.Performance, feature, social personality (SP), social ability (SA) and social attribution all could improve JHSHI students' PR individually. In the integration model, the exterior factor built by performance and feature, the personality factor built by SP, and the social factor built by SA and social attribution all could improve the PR enormously. What influences the most came from personality factor, followed by the other two factors, which had almost the same effect. On the other hand, the exterior factor could make indirect impact on PR by its influence on social factor.Base on the analysis of JHSHI student's PR, some suggestions were given in subjects, contents and ways of the PR intervention. It may help the teachers in practice and also served as reference to the other researchers in this field.