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SELF-CONCEPT AND
PARENTING STRESS AMONG
HEARING IMPAIRED
CHILDREN
PI :
Dr. Lata Pujar
Professor and Head
Dept. of Human Development
and Family Studies
College of CSc, UAS, Dharwad
Introduction
Hearing is one of the most important sensory ability that increases
the adaptation of human with their environment.
Nation-wide disability surveys have estimated that hearing
loss as the second most common cause of disability. According to
the WHO (2011) there are approximately 360 million people
with hearing impairment and out of them, 32 million are deaf
children.
Hearing is considered as a basic component to succeed in
any communication. So communication allows to achieve the
highest degrees of emotional intelligence represented by social
efficiency, emotional knowledge, emotion regulation, and
empathy while the people with hearing impairment do not
have the same opportunity to communicate with others for
their hearing loss and so they have limited emotional growth
and an introverted personality accompanied by low self-esteem.
Parenting stress is a normal part of the parenting experience. It arises
when parenting demands exceed the expected and actual resources available
to the parents that permit them to succeed in the parent role. Parenting stress
makes optimal parenting more difficult and has negative consequences for
children’s development. Children with a hearing loss and their families
have high parental stress levels are usually associated with increased
child behavior problems.
Sample Selection
• The sample for study consisted of hearing impaired children who were
studying in Deaf and Dumb schools from Sirsi, Belagavi and Dharwad.
• Children studying in 8th, 9th, and 10th standard (Both male & female)
from Government and Aided schools were selected.
Deaf & Dumb school
8th, 9th & 10th 8th, 9th & 10th 8th, 9th & 10th
7% 9%
Oral& sign
Sign language
84% Sign & written
Hearing aid usage
80
70
60
50 78.6
40
30
21.4
20
10
0
Yes No
Government facilities
60
N=84
N=84
Levels of emotional
Gender intelligence ² Mean ±SD t-value
Low Moderate Total
Male
35(79.5) 9(20.5) 44 (100) 84.13±10.0
0.05NS 0.98NS
Female 31(77.5) 9(22.5) 40 (100) 81.82±11.41
N=84
Poor
36(76.6) 11(23.4) 47 (100) 86.0±9.85
0.25NS 2.99*
Middle
30(81.1) 7(18.91) 37 (100) 72.27±10.65
Levels of self-concept
Hearing loss Gender
Low Average Total
Male 3 (23.07) 10 (76.9) 13 (100.0)
Severe Female 3 (16.6) 15 (83.3) 18 (100.0)
Total 6 (19.3) 25 (80.6) 31 (100.0)
Male 13 (41.93) 18 (58.1) 31 (100.0)
Profound Female 4 (18.18) 18 (81.8) 22 (100.0)
Total 17 (32.07) 36 (67.91) 53 (100.0)
Table 11: Influence of age on self-concept of hearing
impaired children.
N=84
Levels of self-concept
Age ² Mean ±SD F
Low Moderate Total
N=84
Levels of self-concept t-
Gender ² Mean ±SD
Low Moderate Total value
Male 16 (36.4) 28(63.6) 44 (100) 94.86±18.64
3.75* 2.16*
Female 7 (17.5) 33(82.5) 40 (100) 103.35±17.12
N=84
N=84
N=30
N=30
Levels of parenting stress
SES ² Mean ±SD t-value
Normal High Total
Poor
5 (55.6) 4 (44.4) 9 (100) 95.55±23.4
NS-Non Significant
** Significant at 1 per cent level
Conclusion