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RESEARCH NOTE: TEMPERAMENT AND BEHAVIOURAL ADJUSTMENT IN HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Prior Margot R.,
Glazner Judith,
Sanson Ann,
Debelle Geoffrey
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1988.tb00705.x
Subject(s) - temperament , psychology , anxiety , normative , hearing impaired , developmental psychology , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , audiology , personality , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , philosophy , epistemology , economics , macroeconomics
Temperament and behavioural adjustment were assessed in 26 hearing impaired pre‐school children. By comparison with normally hearing children the clinical group was rated by their mothers as having a more difficult temperament, but no greater level of behaviour problems. Teachers of these children rated them as less well adjusted overall and specifically, more anxious compared with a normative group. Mothers of hearing impaired children showed elevated levels of anxiety, depression and overall problem scores on the General Health Questionnaire and the latter variable was the best predictor of rated behaviour problems in their children. Teacher rating of behaviour problems was best predicted by their rating of the child's temperament. Greater support for mothers of hearing impaired children is suggested as important in preventing behavioural maladjustment in this handicapped group.