The Goal-Setting Features of Individuals with Myopia Diagnosis

• Main Authors: Lyudmyla Kolisnyk, Darya Freidlina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kamianets-Podilskyi National Ivan Ohiienko University, National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, G.S.Kostiuk Institute of Psychology 2019-05-01
• Series: Проблеми сучасної психології
• Subjects: health; myopia; goals-setting; social factors; character.
• Online Access: http://journals.uran.ua/index.php/2227-6246/article/view/171981/171687

The article is devoted to the analysis of the empirical study of the goal-setting peculiarities of the patients with myopia, which is one of the most widespread diagnoses in the world today. The authors carried out an analysis of works emphasizing the relationship between the state of a person’s physical health and his/her psychological peculiarities. The work is based on the assumption that from the one hand, social factors play an important role in the formation of widespread visual impairments, from the other hand, visual impairment influences personality’s features and as a consequence, his/her social behavior. The authors consider that character features of the patients with myopia are connected in particular with their goal-setting peculiarities. To solve the set tasks, the following psychodiagnostic tools were used: A. Karmanov’s questionnaire «Aim-Means-Result» and J. Buck’s projective personality test «The house-tree-person test» (the main attention was paid to the interpretation of the position of the picture on the sheet). The reliability of the differences between the results of the selected respondents groups (control and experimental groups) was verified using the t-Student distribution. The article reveals the features of the psychological portrait of people with myopia diagnosis. It has been proved that people with visual impairment have specific psychological characteristics, in particular, they differ in the specifics of goals setting and future planning. It has been found that such people are often characterized by uncertainty in the future, greater trust in past experience and small expectations for results. They have difficulties in goals setting, «vision» of the future, and are characterized by somewhat lower activity effectiveness compared with healthy respondents. It is more complicated for patients with myopia to set long-term goals. Perspectives for further research are seen in the study of the influence of myopia diagnosis genesis features on the goals-setting specifics of such patients