Comparison styles' attachment, loveliness to parents and emotional-behavioral disorder in children of War wounded soldiers with and without visual impairment

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1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Master of Science (MSc), Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Professor of Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.

4 Ph.D. student, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Aim of this study was Comparison styles' attachment, loveliness to parents and emotional-behavioral disorder in children of War wounded soldiers with and without visual impairment. The method of this study was a descriptive and causal-comparative. The statistic populations of this study were all of the War wounded soldiers with and without visual impairment that they live in Tehran.the sample group was consisted of 100 war wounded soldiers with visual impairment and 100 war wounded soldiers without visual impairment. Sampling method was purposeful for the sample groups. 184 from these groups completely filled the questionnaires. The final sample group was 184 War wounded soldiers with and without visual impairment. The applied tools included the Revised Adult Attachment Scale (Collins & Read, 1990); the scale of loveliness to parents (Afrooz-Asadi, 2012); and Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), used for the study of attachment, lovliness to parents and behavioral peroblems in both groups, respectively. The variance analysis and independent T-test was used in analyzing the data. The obtained results show that there was no significant difference between the Wars wounded soldiers with and without visual impairment. (P<0.05), in terms of attachment. In addition, There was no significant difference between the loveliness of father (P=0/23) and behavior problems (p=0/23) in children of War wounded soldiers with and without visual impairment. Generally, the results of the present research showed that visual impairment cannot be a determinate factor to attachment, loveliness and behavior problems in children of war wounded soldier with visual impairment.

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  • Receive Date: 26 July 2019
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