COMPARISON OF SELF-CONCEPT AND SELFSUFFICIENCY AMONG HEARING IMPAIRED VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND ORTHOPEDICALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS

Self-concept and Self-sufficiency are the important aspects in our life. Self-concept is the multidimensional construct toperceive physical competence throughout childhood and beyond. Self-sufficiency as a personality trait reflects aperson's overall quality or condition of being efficiency. These characteristics are also important among hearingimpaired persons, visually impaired persons as well as orthopedically impaired persons. So the study, comparison ofself-concept and self-sufficiency among hearing impaired visually impaired and orthopedically impaired persons hasbeen taken into consideration. Forty subjects of each category namely hearing impaired, visually impaired andorthopedically impaired students (having problems in upper limbs) were selected within the age range of twelve toeighteen years for the study. Self-concept was measured by Dr. R. K. Saraswat's Manual of Self-concept Questionnaire andSelf-sufficiency was measured by Burn-Reuter Modified Personality Inventory. The data were analyzed through thestatistic of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The results indicate that hearing impaired subjects had better self-concept andself-sufficiency than orthopedically impaired and visually impaired subjects. The orthopedically impaired subjectswere superior to visually impaired subjects in respect to self-sufficiency and self-concept.