Asian Journal of Development Matters
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 2

Comparing the level of hope in life and psychological well-being among sight, hearing and spinal cord impairment of handicapped individuals

  • Author:
  • A. Asadpor1, R. Hassanzadeh2,, D. Ghasemian3
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Page Number: 89 to 98

1General Psychology, Department of Psychology, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Mazandaran, Iran

2Associate Professor, Psychology, Psychology group of Azad University of Sari Unit

3Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Mazandaran, Iran

*Corresponding Author

Online published on 20 February, 2014.

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the purpose of comparing level of hope in life and psychological wellbeing among sight, hearing and spinal cord impairment of handicapped individuals in Sari,Iran (2013). This study is descriptive with a causal-comparative design. The population consisted the whole sight, hearing and spinal cord impairment of handicapped who had file in Welfare organization of Sari. The sample consisted 60 sight, 60 hearing and 60 spinal cord impairments of handicapped, who were selected by random sampling method. In order to collect the data two questionnaires of Miller hope in life and Ryff eighteen expressions form of psychological wellbeing were used. The data was analyzed by use of ANOVA test. The results indicated that there is a significant difference between hope in life and psychological wellbeing of sight, hearing and spinal cord impairment of handicapped individuals.

Keywords

Hope in life, Psychological well-being, Handicapped