Assessment of Psychological and Psycho-physiological Problems Among Visually Impaired Adolescents.
BACKGROUND
Visual impairment tends to evoke more discomfiture than any other disability. Primarily, the biggest issue may be that blindness is visible. Furthermore, visual impairment develops serious medical, psychological, social and economic problems.


OBJECTIVE
The focus of the current study was to investigate the psychological and psycho physiological problems of visually impaired adolescent students.


METHODS
Purposive sampling was adopted to select 150 visually impaired students (71 males and 72 females) from five schools in Coimbatore city of the Tamil Nadu state, India. Anxiety, frustration, aggression and social and personal adjustment levels of the visually impaired students were measured in this study using Taylor's manifest anxiety scale, frustration test, aggression scale and the adolescent adjustment inventory, respectively.


RESULTS
Anxiety (χ(2) = 185.66, P = 0 at P < 0.01), frustration (χ(2) = 167.23, P = 0 at P < 0.01) and aggression (χ(2) = 57.66, P = 0 at P < 0.01) were significantly related to adjustment among visually impaired students. The adjustment score had a significant positive correlation with anxiety (r = 0.919, P = 0 at P < 0.01), frustration (r = 0.887, P = 0 at P < 0.01) and aggression levels (r = 0.664, P = 0 at P < 0.01), anxiety was significantly correlated with frustration (r = 0. 961, P = 0 at P < 0.01) and aggression levels (r = 0.727, P < 0.01) and frustration was significantly correlated with aggression level (r = 0. 637, P = 0 at P < 0.01) of visually impaired adolescents. There was a positive relationship between psycho-physiological disorders and anxiety frustration, aggression and adjustment among visually impaired students.


CONCLUSIONS
Visually impaired students exhibited significant levels of psychological and psycho-physiological problems.
School of Social Sciences and Languages, VIT University, Tamil Nadu, India.
Mohanraj
M
Bhuvaneswari
School of Bio Sciences and Technology, VIT University, Tamil Nadu, India.
Chinnadurai
C
Immanuel Selvaraj
Department of Psychology, Government Arts College, Tamil Nadu, India.
Balakrishnan
B
Selvaraj
Department of Psychology, Government Arts College, Tamil Nadu, India.
Thiruvengadam
T
Srinivasan
Adjustment; Adolescence; Aggression; Anxiety; Frustration; Psycho-Somatic Disorders