Effect of Hearing Impaired on Children’s Aggressive Behavior
Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The objective of this study is to determine to the effects of hearing impairment on children’s aggressive behavior the aggressiveness level of hearing impaired children and to discuss the drivers within the framework of the obtained data. In the study conducted on 81 students between the ages of 10 and 17 going to the public Seyhan School for the children with hearing impairment in the province of Adana in the south of Turkey, we used “Buss-Perry Aggressiveness Questionnaire (BPAQ)” and the “General Information Form” drawn up by the researcher in order to obtain some demographic information about the students included within the study group. As a result of the analysis of data; it was determined that the total aggressiveness scores did not differ by sex, but that the male students had higher scores than girls in sub-dimensions of aggressiveness, that age did not make any difference on aggressiveness, the children receiving special education got meaningful scores in sub-dimensions of verbal and consequential aggressiveness and hostility, and that the children communicating verbally got higher scores in total aggressiveness and all sub-dimensions, and the existence of another impaired individual in the family made difference in scores achieved in the sub-dimensions of total aggressiveness, physical and verbal aggressiveness. Furthermore, the data reveals that the parent’s attitudes did not make any difference on the aggressiveness scores of hearing impaired children.
Author: Ayhan Babaroğlu
Institution: Cukurova University
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W53014541