TITLE:
The Role of Self-Control on Mood States and Health Anxiety in a Sample of Blind and Visually Impaired People
AUTHORS:
Pierluigi Diotaiuti, Filippo Petruccelli, Luigi Rea, Angelo Marco Zona, Valeria Verrastro
KEYWORDS:
Self-Control, Self-Regulation, Mood States, Health Anxiety, Visually Impaired
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.5 No.19,
December
31,
2014
ABSTRACT: Blind
people face daily a stressful condition that they seek to better manage through
the control of the surrounding environment. They prefer the maintenance of routines
and the contacts with familiar people and frequentation of well-known places.
We hypothesize that in people with a serious visual impairment, the exercise of
self-control, both as self-regulation both as coping of negative emotions, is significantly
associated with the general tone of mood and can act as a protective factor
with respect to the concern for their own health. The assumption underlying
this study is that the levels of mood and self-rate of health concern are
privileged indicators of the quality of life for blind people. 262 blind
subjects were administered about personality inventory, scales for measuring
resilience, the mood state, the anxiety about their health. Among the key findings, we
noted that self-regulation was highly correlated to the mood of males, but only
on the condition of acquired blindness, and that it could mediate anxiety
levels with respect to their health. Self-esteem was not found to be a
protective emotional factor for blind subjects. The study opens up the need to
further investigate the capacity of self-regulation on the emotional sphere of
people with disabilities in order to create more effective intervention
programs to enhance the adaptive capacity of the subject.