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July 17-19, 2017 Chicago, USA
World Congress and Expo on
Optometry & Vision Science
Volume 2, Issue 1 (Suppl)
Optom Open Access, an open access journal
ISSN:2476-2075
World Optometry 2017
July 17-19, 2017
Difference between the students with visual and auditory impairment in self-handicapping
Kourosh Amraei
1
and
Mohammadparsa Azizi
2
1
Lorestan University, Iran
2
Islamic Azad University, Iran
S
elf-handicapping represents a strategy whereby individuals actively arrange the causes of their behavior to preserve self-
esteem within socially evaluative situations. Self-handicapping has two forms of behavioral self-handicapping and claim
self-handicapping. Behavioral self-handicapping consists of performing or not performing a task in order to make excuses
and to claim self-handicaps, a verbal effort to convince the others about the reasons behind the failure so, that the individual is
not being questioned or blamed. In the present study, self-handicapping among students with visual and auditory impairment
is compared. In this causal-comparative study, 46 blind students and 38 deaf students were selected through multi-cluster
sampling. They were required to answer Jones and Rodvelt self-handicapping Questionnaire. The multi-variable variance
analysis MANOVA had done about data. Research results demonstrate that the blinds and the deaf don not differ in adopting
claimed self-handicapping mechanism. Comparing the blind students, the deaf students showed a greater use of behavioral
self-handicapping mechanism and general self-handicapping, however. Regarding the results of this study (i.e. difference
between the deaf and the blinds in adopting self-handicapping mechanism), contributes to instructional and rehabilitating
programs in the two groups.
Biography
Dr Kourosh Amraei is an ophthalmologist at Lorestan University, Iran
Kourosh.amrai@yahoo.comKourosh Amraei et al., Optom Open Access 2017, 2:1 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2476-2075-C1-002