Research Paper Self Concept
ACADEMIC AND INTELLECTUAL SELF CONCEPT OF
HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN
ARCHANA KUMARI*, ANKITA BHATT**
*Assistant Professor, Human Development, Department of Home Science, IIS University, Jaipur
**M.Sc Human Development, Department of Home Science, IIS University, Jaipur
The importance of self-concept in an individual’s personal adjustment has been well recognized among psychologists. Even educators are becoming increasingly aware that a students’ perception of him/ her may have a significant influence on his/her academic performance. There is a general consensus that hearing impaired children tend to have lower self-concept because of a tendency to academic failure, difficulty in information processing and the segregation from mainstream schooling that they experience. This study was designed to find out the academic and intellectual self concept of hearing impaired children. Altogether 100 school going children in the age group of 12 to 17 years were purposively selected from special school for hearing impaired children. Out of which 50 were boys and 50 girls in each category. Self prepared questionnaire was administered on each subject. On the whole the academic self concept was found meaningfully and positively correlated with intellectual self concept of hearing impaired children. But no difference was found in academic and intellectual self concept of girls and boys.
Key Words: Self Concept, Academic self concept, Intellectual Self concept.
1.0. Introduction
Self-concept is an important construct in psychology and education. It can be defined as the object of an individual’s own perception or in other words it is the way people think about themselves. It is that part of personality of which one is aware. William James (1890) in his first introductory textbook in Psychology described the self as the way in which the self could be expanded to include one’s cloths, one’s home and one’s society. Self encompasses both the “I” and “Me” that is both the
HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN
ARCHANA KUMARI*, ANKITA BHATT**
*Assistant Professor, Human Development, Department of Home Science, IIS University, Jaipur
**M.Sc Human Development, Department of Home Science, IIS University, Jaipur
The importance of self-concept in an individual’s personal adjustment has been well recognized among psychologists. Even educators are becoming increasingly aware that a students’ perception of him/ her may have a significant influence on his/her academic performance. There is a general consensus that hearing impaired children tend to have lower self-concept because of a tendency to academic failure, difficulty in information processing and the segregation from mainstream schooling that they experience. This study was designed to find out the academic and intellectual self concept of hearing impaired children. Altogether 100 school going children in the age group of 12 to 17 years were purposively selected from special school for hearing impaired children. Out of which 50 were boys and 50 girls in each category. Self prepared questionnaire was administered on each subject. On the whole the academic self concept was found meaningfully and positively correlated with intellectual self concept of hearing impaired children. But no difference was found in academic and intellectual self concept of girls and boys.
Key Words: Self Concept, Academic self concept, Intellectual Self concept.
1.0. Introduction
Self-concept is an important construct in psychology and education. It can be defined as the object of an individual’s own perception or in other words it is the way people think about themselves. It is that part of personality of which one is aware. William James (1890) in his first introductory textbook in Psychology described the self as the way in which the self could be expanded to include one’s cloths, one’s home and one’s society. Self encompasses both the “I” and “Me” that is both the