A Study on the Self-concept and Its Correlated Factors for the Hearing-impaired Adult

• Main Authors: Su, Hsun-Chiao, 蘇訓巧
• Other Authors: 黃玉枝
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79656893248605921118

碩士 === 國立屏東師範學院 === 特殊教育學系碩士班 === 93 === The purpose of this research is to investigate the self-concept and its correlated factors for the hearing-impaired adults. The instruments are “Self-concept Scale for the Hearing-impaired Adults” and “Individual’s Characteristic Questionnaire for the Hearing-impaired Adults”. The data was obtained from 98 hearing-impaired adults who were 20-40 years old, and analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, multiple regression analysis, and qualitative analysis. The main findings of the study are as follows: 1.The hearing-impaired adults’ self-concept scores in scale and subscales are all above the mean value. 2.The hearing-impaired adults’ self-concept between different sexes, among different hearing lose degrees, among different self-identification, among different communication methods, and between hoping the future mate with disability and without disability are not significantly different. 3.The differences of the hearing-impaired adults’ self-concept among different age groups are significant. In each subscale, it has the differences in study/work-self-concept and sex/marriage-self-concept are significant. 4.The differences of the hearing-impaired adults’ self-concept among different levels of education are significant. The self-concept of the hearing-impaired adults who had graduated from university is better than those who are studying in university. 5.The differences of the hearing-impaired adults’ self-concept among different parents’ hearing states are significant. The self-concept of the hearing-impaired adults whose parents are both hearing-impaired is better than those whose parents are both normal. 6.The differences of the hearing-impaired adults’ overall self-concept between having mate and no mate are not significant. The sex/marriage-self-concept of the hearing-impaired adults who have mate is better than those who have no mate. 7.The differences of the hearing-impaired adults’ overall self-concept between their mate with disability and without disability are not significant. The study/work-self-concept of the hearing-impaired adults whose mate is without disability is better than those whose mate is with disability. 8.The differences of the hearing-impaired adults’ self-concept between different sexual interaction are significant. The self-concept of the hearing-impaired adults whose sexual interaction is good is better than those whose sexual interaction is bad. 9.The differences of the hearing-impaired adults’ self-concept among different career groups are not significant. In each subscale, it shows the differences in study/work-self-concept and sex/marriage-self-concept are significant. 10.The differences of the hearing-impaired adults’ self-concept between different career adjustment are significant. The self-concept of the hearing-impaired adults whose career adjustment is good is better than those whose career adjustment is bad. 11.The nine background variables included of sexes, age, hearing lose degrees, levels of education, parents’ hearing states, self-identification, main communication methods, career adjustment, and sexual interaction were transformed into fifteen predicted variables. They can explain 45.9﹪ variance of the hearing-impaired adults’ self-concept. Further analysis finds that career adjustment and sexual interaction can explain 34.3﹪ variance of the hearing-impaired adults’ self-concept. 12.There are four reasons for changing main communication methods. They are included of the settings of education placement, the communication methods that the parents choose, individual wishes and choice, and the communication needs in living settings. The periods of changing main communication methods are distributed from elementary school to graduation from university. There are six channels of changing main communication methods. 13.The self-concept of the hearing-impaired adults between their communication methods had ever changed and had never changed is not significantly different. The self-concept of the hearing-impaired adults between different channels of changing main communication method is not significantly different. Based on the main findings, the study provides the counseling and researching suggestions in the future.