@article{ref1,
title="Self-esteem and social intelligence in visually impaired adolescents",
journal="Pakistan journal of medical and health sciences",
year="2023",
author="Saleem, Jawairia and Saleem, Sadia and Ikram, Sadia and Inam, Saima and Siddiqui, Asma and Ain, Qurat Ul",
volume="17",
number="1",
pages="5-5",
abstract="AIM: To explore the differences in the levels of self-esteem and social Intelligent in visually and non-visually impaired adolescents  Study design: Cross sectional  Place and duration: December, 2018 to February, 2020 in special education center private and government school of city Lahore  Method: There were 122 people in total in the sample. There were 56 visually impaired volunteers and 66 non-visually impaired persons.Boys and girls aged 14 to 19 from private and public special education schools took part in the study. Two scales were used; Self-esteem Scale for Children (SESC), and Social Intelligence Scale (SIS) used along with a demographic Performa  Results: Analysis revealed that being visually impaired and having low level of social facilitation is found to be a negative predictor of low self-esteem. There was no significant difference found on three factors of self-esteem and social intelligence. Overall visually impaired tend to have lower level of self-esteem.   Conclusion: Adolescence is a vital period in a person's life when he or she faces a number of psychological obstacles. If he had any type of handicap at this teenage time, he would have a lot of problems in his life. According to this study, if a person has any handicap throughout the teenage stage, it affects their degree of self-esteem and social intelligence.   Key words: Self-esteem, Social Intelligence Visually Impaired, Non-Visually Impaired, Adolescents<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1996-7195",
doi="10.53350/pjmhs20231715",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.53350/pjmhs20231715"
}