Body Image Disorder and its Relationship with Self- esteem and Avoidant Personality Disorder among Adolescents with Visual Impairments "Descriptive-Clinical Study"

Abstract

The present study aimed at disclosing the association between body image disorder, self-esteem and dvoidant personality disorder among adolescents with visual impairments and the differences among these variables according to some demographic variables. The sample consisted of 149 adolescents with visual impairments. The tools of the study included: body image disorder scale for adolescents with visual impairments, culture free self-esteem scale, Avoidant Personality disorder scale, and SSGT test for sentence completion, the clinical interview form, and indirect clinical observation .The results revealed that there is a negative correlation between some dimensions of body image disorder scale among adolescents with visual impairments, culture free self-esteem and avoidant personality disorder, but positive in the other dimensions. There are no significant differences of demographic variables for adolescents with visual impairments on all dimensions of the body image disorder scale score and its total score, except for the first and the third dimensions of the scale. There are differences among educational stages on these two dimensions in favor of the secondary stage. There are no significant differences of demographic variables for adolescents with visual impairments on all dimensions of self - esteem scale except for the second dimension according to gender, in which there are statistically significant differences in favor of males. There are significant differences of demographic variables on the avoidant personality disorder scale in favor of partial visual impairments, after five years, and secondary stage. The best predictor variable of the body image disorder is the avoidant personality disorder in adolescents with visual impairments. The results of clinical and psychometric studies are consistent, in which, the clinical study contributed in providing a profile for the two cases of the study to reveal the suffering they have resulting from the body image disorder, the low self-esteem as well as the avoidant personality disorder.