A COMPARISON OF SELF CONCEPT  BETWEEN TOTAL BLIND AND PARTIAL BLIND CHILDREN

Dr. Vikas Bhardwaj

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the difference between the psychological makeup of the children suffering with different degree of disability in vision, which affects their self conceptualization. For achieving the purpose of the study; data was collected on total 100 male blind (n=50) and partial blind (n=50) boys  in the age group of 12 to 15 years from different rehabilitative centers (Institutes).The subjects were tested with (CSCS) Children Self concept Scale-The way I feel about myself by Dr. S.P. Ahluwalia. To compare self concept of blind and partial blind boys mean, standard deviation and unpaired t–test was employed with the help of statistical package of SPSS. To test the hypothesis the significance level was set at 0.05 percent. The result showed them to have equal self concept.