PERSONAL IDENTITY IN DEAF ADOLESCENTS
Journal Title: Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation - Year 2008, Vol 9, Issue 1
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing the identity deaf adolescents. The study involved 67 deaf adolescents (38 boys and 29 girls aged 16 to 19 students of secondary school). Ninety-three hearing children constituted a comparison group. The structure of identity was explored on the basis of identification references given by the subjects who were to reply in writing, 20 times running, to the question: „Who Am I?” the test, adapted from M. H. Kuhn and T. S. McPartland by Martines and Silvestre (1995) given in written and signed mode. Results showed that the hearing status as well as mode of communication influence the description of personal identity. It was found that deaf adolescents used more descriptions especially in the following categories: Civil Status, Body and Physical Appearance, Tastes and Activities, Friendship and Relationships, Personal and Social Situation, Negative Personal Traits, and Neutral Personality Traits. Although this study could demonstrate impact independent variables on identity, the data raise the need for further, preferably longitudinal, research. This complex phenomenon has to be examined more closely. Combined self-descriptive processes lead to the development of an organized, learned and dynamic identity, and subjective description of an individual has strong emotional consequences for the individual in question.
Authors and Affiliations
Joanna KOSSEWSKA| Department of Psychology, Pedagogical University, Cracow, Poland Katarzyna Brdej Special School and Therapy Centre for the Deaf, Cracow, Poland
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