Psychological resilience characteristics of visually impaired adolescents:a qualitative study
Objective To analyze the psychological resilience characteristics of visually impaired adolescents.Methods From February to May,2023,13 visually impaired adolescents(average age of 16.5 years)from Nanjing Nor-mal University of Special Education,Yangzhou Special Education School and Nanjing School for the Blind in Ji-angsu,China were selected for semi-structured interviews with phenomenological method,and the interview data were sorted by theme analysis method.Results Four themes and twelve sub-themes were obtained;namely multiple sources of difficulties,including travel diffi-culties,learning difficulties,social difficulties and difficulties in daily life;need for external support,including in-sufficient family support,school support needs to be improved,need for peer support and insufficient social sup-port;negative and positive adaptation coexist,including negative adaptation and positive adaptation;and nega-tive coping and positive coping coexist,including positive coping and negative coping.Conclusion The psychological resilience of visually impaired adolescents is characterized by multiple sources of diffi-culties,insufficient external support,coexistence of positive and negative adaptation,and coexistence of positive and negative coping.A joint family-school-society support system should be formed to reduce the source of their difficulties,and help them establish positive adaptation and positive coping methods,to enhance their psychologi-cal resilience.
visual impairmentadolescentspsychological resiliencequalitative study
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维普
