Self-Awareness among Visually Impaired Late Adolescent Girls - A Descriptive Study

Abstract

The present scientific research paper concentrates on self-awareness among visually impaired late adolescent girls. The term self-awareness is widely used in the field of psychology. Self-awareness is conscious knowledge of one’s own charters, strength, weakness, feelings, motives, desires. Visually impaired adolescent should have aware about their one’s own self because once started to aware about their self their life goal can be easily to reach. Devendra Agochiya (2010) rightly pointed out that Self-awareness is the first step on the path to growth and development or to be successful in life and it will help the adolescence set realistic life goals. As adolescence are perpetual contact with their potentialities and what adolescents are capable of achieving. The main aim of the scientific research paper is to analysis the self-awareness condition among visually impaired late adolescent’s girls at a government blind school in Thiruchirappalli District. And find out the relationship between age and self-awareness and also to find out the association between selected demographic variables (Domicile, life goal,) and self-awareness among visually impaired late adolescents girls. Descriptive research design was adopted. Thirty visually impaired late adolescents girls were selected by adopting simple random sampling techniques using lottery method. Self-awareness scale was developed by Auzoult.L in 2013 was used. One to one interview method was adopted to collect data form the respondents. The present study result revealed that more than half (60 per cent) of the visually impaired late adolescents girls have low level of self-awareness, less than half (40 per cent) of the visually impaired late adolescents have high level of self-awareness, further, the present study salient finding will be discussed in the full paper.

Keywords: Self-awareness, visually impaired later adolescents girls.