Awareness And Social Adaptation Of Children With Hearing Impairment: The Role Of Social Support And Coping Styles

In recent years, with the development and popularization of the concept of inclusive education and the economy of our country and social progress, people pay more and more attention to the special children, special children return to normal social problems have attracted more attention. As a special group of children in the children with hearing impairment, hearing impairment students social adaptation is gaining more attention. Studies show that there exists certain relationship between social adaptation and social discrimination, the present research on perceived discrimination and social adaptation in China is mainly reflected in the migrant children, late start, few other subjects.This study adopts the research methods of interview and questionnaire survey combined with cluster sampling method,251 students with hearing impairment from three special schools in China’s western Shaanxi province Xi’an City second school for the deaf, Ankang Sunshine School and the Hanzhong school for the deaf were perceived discrimination and social support questionnaire, adolescent social adaptation and coping methods survey, analysis of perception and social discrimination of hearing impaired students adapt to the relationship, and social support and coping style on the impact on. First of all, through the research of foreign and domestic research of migrant children perceived discrimination scale, and interviews with children of hearing impaired discrimination perception questionnaire. Secondly, through the exploratory factor analysis to get the formal questionnaire of perceived discrimination of deaf children of hearing impaired children discrimination perception questionnaire. Again, the official discrimination questionnaire, social support questionnaire, adolescent social adaptation questionnaire and Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire were used to measure, and the measurement results are new and validity analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis, and discrimination on the social impact and coping style and social support in the the role of. Conclusions of the study are as follows:(1) the study of the "hearing impaired children perceived discrimination questionnaire" has good reliability and validity. (2) three special schools in Sha. (2) three special schools in Shaanxi Province, more than 90% students with hearing impairment have been discrimination experience. The grade difference of hearing impaired children perceived discrimination was significant, but not significant gender differences. Children’s hearing disorder in different life groups, there were significant differences in the perceptions of discrimination, rural children group discrimination score was higher. (3) the social adaptation scale for children with hearing impairment in the sense of psychological superiority, mental energy, interpersonal adaptability, resilience score have significant difference in the learning stage. Hearing impaired children living in different groups there was significant difference between the social adaptation scale in the sense of psychological superiority and interpersonal adaptability score, rural children with hearing impairment of mental dominance, social adaptation is lower than that of the urban group. (4) support for hearing impaired children in the social scale, objective support, subjective support, support utilization in the period of the existence of significant differences. The primary group of hearing impaired children objective support, subjective support was significantly higher than that of junior high school children; children’s utilization of support were significantly higher than that of primary school children. Children with hearing impairment in different groups there was a significant difference in social support, children in rural areas was hearing impaired social support than children in city group of hearing impairment. (5) the overall hearing impaired children psychological coping style in the middle level. The way to deal with the significant grade differences, other demographic variables were not significant. (6) perceived discrimination and the dimensions of social adaptation of each dimension, each dimension of social support has a significant negative correlation between. Social adaptation had significant correlation between social support and social adaptation, which showed a significant positive correlation between subjective support, objective support. There was a significant correlation between coping style and perceived discrimination, social adaptation, positive coping and perceived discrimination, social adaptation is a significant positive correlation between the various dimensions; negative coping and perceived discrimination, social adaptation between the various dimensions has a significant negative correlation.