Social Skills, Life Satisfaction, and the Locus of Control in Students with Hearing Impairment, Students with Vision Impairment, and Normal Students

The present research aims to compare social skills, life satisfaction, and the locus of control in students with hearing impairment, students with visual impairment, and normal students at middle school and high school levels of Ahvaz city. A Sample of 129 people, including 50 students with hearing impairment, 28 students with visual impairment, 51 normal students participated in this study and filled out social skills, life satisfaction, and the locus of control questionnaires. This was a causal–comparative research, and multivariate analysis of variance was used to test the hypotheses. The results indicated that there was a significant difference between the three groups (P>0.001). There was a significant difference in the variables of social skills and locus of control, resulting in better social skills and higher Locus of Control in normal individuals compared to those with hearing impairment and vision impairment. Through investigating the results, this finding was obtained that the difference in the social skills of students with hearing impairment and vision impairment was significant, being in favor of the group with vision impairment As for the locus of control, when comparing the normal group and the group with hearing impairment, the results indicated a significant difference in external locus of control in favor of group with hearing impairment, but no significant difference was observed in the variable of life satisfaction among the three groups. The paper discusses the application of these finding