Personality tests of partially sighted children

Abstract

The Aspects of Personality Test and the Pupil Portrait Traits were administered to more than 400 grade school pupils in eight conservation classes. The two tests yield six scores: ascendance; extroversion; emotional stability; and school, home, and total adjustment. Comparison of these scores by the handicapped children with the norms for the tests and with scores obtained by 1,171 hard-of-hearing subjects leads to the following conclusions: "In spite of the slight differences we have pointed out, the major emphasis of this study must be placed upon the similarities of, rather than the differences between, children with slight visual or auditory defects and children without such defects. The slight physical handicap does not seem to result in a distinct personality pattern or in an inability to feel satisfactorily adjusted. Personality traits, such as are measured by the tests we have used, vary in amount from child to child and from trait to trait among visually and auditorially handicapped children in the same manner as they do among so-called normal children." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)