Learning to Use Hearing Aids: A Study of Factors Influencing the Decision of Children to Wear Hearing Aids (1946) / Chapter Skim
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'Personality as a Factor'
'Personality as a Factor'
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For example, an in dividual who had adequately controlled his aggressive qualities be cause of his inability to hear well, might give free reign to those characteristics once he was relieved from his inhibiting tensions. On the other hand, an individual who was normally aggressive but had used a withdrawing pattern of adjustment could easily adapt himself to a socially acceptable type of self-assertive behavior with a dominant pattern of leadership.
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The findings suggest that the aggressive child needs psy chological preparation before he is ready to accept the wearing of a hearing aid. Those children who had a tendency to revolt against authority in form of either parental discipline or school discipline require some kind of reassurance as to the advantages and gains be fore they are ready to wear an aid successfully.
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There were so many new sounds and there are still so many sounds that I cannot · identify them all. I keep on asking my parents where the sounds come from and what the sounds mean." Before he received his aid, he had been extremely self-conscious of his hearing loss, which had been caused by a mastoid operation.
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He thinks that the children treat him with more attention because he wears the hearing aid, but says, "I rather appreciate this attention,. The children are considerate and ask me if I want to play with them now and show some concern as to whether I hear them in the games." He attends classes at the Museum of Natural History and has also become a member of the Audubon Society.
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Tom provides an example of a boy who has been much happier since he began to wear a hearing aid, and hence may be considered to have improved his adjustment, al though he still retains many of his maladjustive behavior patterns. Since he has shown improvement in some direction, the possibility is always present that he ultimately may make a more adequate personality adjustment.
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To en.:ourage him, his mother often cut advertisements out of newspapers describing the uses of hearing aids and the advantages of wear ing one. U:nder her kindly persuasion, Tom finally consented to wear it.
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His rigid training and home environment have made his behavior socially acceptable and he is well li] f.ed by his teachers and a few friends.
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People talk to each other and laugh, but nobody bothers talking or laughing with me." When he first received his aid, he was reluctant to try it. His mother encouraged him to wear it by telling him a story about a man she knows who is able to carry on a successful business by using a hearing aid.
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One girl who was a model pu pil in school displayed stubborn, aggressive behavior at home. One boy constantly quarreled with his father about his need for inde pendence, but was a good student in school.
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In response to a question from the worker as to whether the mother thought that Edgar's failures in school might be attributed to his hearing loss, she replied that she did not think so, but that Edgar was just a " bad boy," and that his poor hearing had nothing to do with his being bad. In summary, the evidence from the case studies, based on data assembled from interviews with the children, the parents, and teachers and other school officials, is ( 1 )
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To these conclusions, based on subjective appraisals of evidence given in reports of persons acquainted with the children, should be added data obtained from objective personality tests. RESULTS OF USE OF BERNREUTER PERSONALITY INVENTORY The Bernreuter Personality Inventory was used to obtain an ob jective evaluation of personality adjustment.
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This suggests that the girls who wore the aids were more sociable and gregarious than those who did not. TABLE VI : PERCENTILE RATINGS ON THE BERNREUTER PERSONALITY INVENTORY FOR AID WEARING AND NO-AID WEARING CHILDREN GIRLS BOYS · Aid No-Aid AiJ No-Aitl N = II N = 10 N= 14 N=J Neurotic tendency .
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Children coming from homes of lower economic status tend to reject the wearing of hearing aids in greater number than those coming from better homes. Sixteen per cent of the aid group could be considered as coming from poverty-stricken homes, while S4 per cent of the children not wearing their aids came from compar able environments.
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