النموذج السببي للعلاقات بين الشعور بالتماسك و أنماط الخوف من التعاطف و ذكريات الطفولة المبكرة لدى المراهقين المعاقين بصريا

Abstract EN

The aim of the study to investigate the level of sense of cohesion and fear patterns of empathy among visually impaired adolescents.

Likewise, differences in sense of cohesion, fear patterns of empathy and early childhood memories by the sexes in visually impaired adolescents and mainley finding a causal model that explains the causal relationships between these variables.

The study sample consisted of (80) students (41 males and 39 females), The study tools consisted of Sense of Cohesion Scale prepared by the authors, Fear Patterns of Empathy Scale prepared by Gilbert et al.

(2011) translated by El-Dabea (2017) and Early Childhood Memories Scale prepared by Richter et al.

(2009) translated by the authors.

Results indicated a low level of sense of cohesion and a higher level of fear of empathy from others among the visually impaired adolescents.

There are also statistically significant differences between males and females in Sense of Comprehensibility and Sense of Manageability in favor for females.

While there were no statistically significant differences in the sense of Meaningfulness, there were no statistically significant differences between males and females in the degree of Fear of Empathy with others and from others, While there were statistically significant differences in the degree of fear of self-empathy in favor for females, also there were statistically significant differences between males and females in early childhood memories in favor for males.

The researchers also developed a causal model that explains the causal relationships between the variables.