Abstract
This study investigated the level of psychological adjustment and emotional health by identifying a level of psychological symptoms and their clinical relevance among samples of students with or without hearing deficiency. A group of thirty six students with hearing loss and the control group of thirty six typically developing controls completed self-report measure of The Trauma Symptom Checklist and the Non-verbal Scale of Suffering. The same level of emotional distress was observed among both groups of students; no statistically relevant differences between expressed symptoms of the two groups were found. Anxiety was positively linked to depressive feelings, feelings of sadness and sexual concerns, although it had no relation to emotional suffering. Age, sex, and socioeconomic status were not a significant predictor for expressed level of symptoms. The findings suggest that deaf students did not demonstrate poorer levels of psychological adjustment which can be associated with higher levels of psychological symptoms.
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