Visually Impaired Children And Normal Children, Self-concept And Personality

Comparative Study on Visually Impaired Children and Normal Children'sSelf-concept and PersonalitySelf-concept was the key construction of personality,it influenced both anindivudual's cognition and behavior style and his mental health.Theobjective of this study was to Undrstand the similarity and differencebetween normal children and visually impaired children's self-concept andpersonality characteristics, and supply exceptional education withphychological advice. TST skill and EPQ and interview method were usedto investigate 45 normal children,28 low vision children and 20 totallyblind children in ZiQiang polytechnic school. After comparing visuallyimpaired children with normal children,the conclusion displayed that:1.All children had same strcture of self concept, they paid more anentionto spintual self and social self rather than physical and other aspect ofself They all showed idealization and contradiction in self description.2.Low vision children paid significantly more attention to physicalself than normal and blind children did, Blind children are more sensitiveabout their inner world than low vision children and normal children,lowvision children and normal children had significant difference in socialself;Female students were more aware of their social self than their malepeer.3.Low vision Children had higher E score than normal children.Allchildren had no statistically difference in P score,L score and N score. Butvisually impaired children(the blind children, specially), tended to feel morepressure of employment and anxiety caused by it. Visually children were inlow spirit more often than normal children.4.Vsually impaired children and normal children displayed samedevelopmental trend:as they grew older,the difference in their seIf-conceptand personality became smaller.5.There were more significant difference in self-concept and personalitywithin visually impaired children than within normal children.6.Parents' education level had no significant impact on allchildren'self──concept and personality;Different onset of blindness madethe blind children have different means in their spirituaI self and social selfAccording to the conclusions, we made three pieces of suggestionhere:l.Educators should have higher expectation for visually impairedchildren,give them strong support.Give special attention to low visionchildren,and employ diffenent strategies to teach visually impairedchildren.2.Educators should give more attention to visually impaired children's social adjustment and their mental health.3.Give visually impaired children some educationalinterference,such as motive training and attribution style training.