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| Published: November 20, 2021
Grit, Self Image and Coping Strategies among Sighted and Visually Impaired College Students
MSc. Applied Psychology and Behavioural Research, Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women, Chennai, India
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MSc. Applied Psychology and Behavioural Research, Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women, Chennai, India
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Clinical Psychologist & Assistant Head and Assistant Professor in Psychology, Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women, Chennai, India
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DIP: 18.01.072.20210904
DOI: 10.25215/0904.072
ABSTRACT
The objective of the study is to compare the level of grit, coping strategies and self-image among blind and sighted college students. Ex-post facto research design and convenience sampling was used. The sample included 80 city college students, where 40were visually impaired and 40 were sighted day scholars. Independent t tests was done using SPSS package where a significant difference among the visually impaired and sighted college students was found in grit, task-oriented coping strategy and self-image, with no significant difference in self-esteem scores.
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Grit, Self-image, Coping Strategies, Self-Esteem, Visually Impaired, Sighted College Students
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2021, Athaullah N., Mushtaq A. & Dhanaraj K.
Received: September 15, 2021; Revision Received: November 01, 2021; Accepted: November 20, 2021
Nuzhath Athaullah @ nuzhath.athaullah@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.072.20210904
10.25215/0904.072
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 4, October- December, 2021