البروفيل النفسي للقلق الاجتماعي لدى التلاميذ ذوي الإعاقة السمعية في دولة الكويت

Abstract EN

The current study aimed to identify the level of the social anxiety among students with hearing impairment, and to identify the difference in the social anxiety according to the gender and the economic, social and cultural level of students with hearing impairment.

The sample of the study consisted of (80) adolescents with hearing impairment, divided into (40) males and (40) females, and all of them were enrolled in Al-Amal Schools, in the Hawalli Educational Zone in the State of Kuwait, and their ages ranged between (13-15) years.

The study tools consisted of the social anxiety scale, which consisted of the dimensions: emotional anxiety, behavioral anxiety, cognitive anxiety, and social anxiety, and the tools consisted of the economic, social and cultural level scale.

The results of the study showed that the highest dimensions of the social anxiety scale were in order: emotional anxiety, behavioral anxiety, social anxiety, and cognitive anxiety.

The results also indicated that there were no differences between males and females on the dimensions of and the total score of the social anxiety scale, with the exception of cognitive anxiety, which females were higher than males in this dimension.

The results also indicated that there were no differences in the dimensions and the total score of the scale of social anxiety according to the economic, social and cultural level.