The Role of Sensory Handicap in Attachment Styles and Children Behavioral Problems

The present research investigates the effect sensory handicaps including blindness, deafness on kind of attachment (attachment secure/ insecure) and attachment styles (secure, ambivalence, avoidance, disorganize/ disorientate). The effect is shown on behavioral problems of blind and deaf children in comparison with abnormal children (relation ship) between kind of attachment with behavioral problems in three groups of children include blind, deaf and abnormal children. Samples include 84 perfect blind, deaf children and abnormal children with age group between 6-7 years old and of both genders.
Tools of the research were: separation anxiety test, the child behavior checklist's Achenbach (T.R.F), Raven's progressive matrix test, demographic inventory. For statistic analysis, data were used from univariate analysis of variance, LSD follow- up test, T test, Chi square test. Results showed deaf children are more prone to insecure attachment in comparison with abnormal children. But for blind children this difference are not significant one. There aren’t significant differences between dispersion distribution of blind and deaf children in four attachment styles in comparison with dispersion distribution of normal children. Other results showed that blind and deaf children are more prone to behavioral problems in comparison with abnormal children. There is relationship between attachments insecure with behavioral problems in abnormal children but this relationship aren’t significant in blind and deaf children.