I-concept and personal characteristics of adolescents with disabled development

Abstract

This article analyses the relationship between the internal defect picture, personality traits and the self-attitude of adolescents with disabilities. Topicality of the study is due to the scientific interest in the peculiarities of the formation of the self-concept in the most sensitive period of development for its formation – adolescence in a special group of persons – adolescents with developmental disorders. The empirical base of the study was 109 adolescents with deficits (impaired hearing, vision, speech) and delayed development. Mean age is 14 years. The most connections with the components of the internal picture of the defect were acquired by such personality traits as aggravation and anxiety. Aspects of self-attitude turned out to be more closely related to the components of the internal picture of the defect in terms of communication parameters, popularity among peers, behaviour, situation at school, happiness and satisfaction, family status, and self-confidence.