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.Objectives The focus of the current study was to investigate the psychological and psycho physiological problems of visually impaired adolescent students.Patients and 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 Conclusions Visually impaired students exhibited significant levels of psychological and psycho-physiological problems.