A Comparison of Self-Determination and its Dimensions between Students with and without Intellectual Disability

Shamradloo, Aseyeh; Seyf, Diba

doi:10.22054/jpe.2016.7117

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

aseyeh shamradloo ¹
Diba Seyf ²

¹ aseyeh.shamradloo. M.A. in Psychology &amp; Education of Exceptional Children at Shiraz University

² shiraz university

https://doi.org/10.22054/jpe.2016.7117

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to compare the self-determination and its dimensions between students with and without intellectual disability. Research methodology is the form of scientific-comparison. The population of the study consisted of all students with and without intellectual disability age 14 years and older which in educated year 91-92 are educating at schools in shiraz. The participans of this study were 120 students (60 with intellectual disability and 60 without intellectual disability) with age of 14 and above, which in targeted way were selected from the school related to with and without intellectual disability students. In this research, self-determination and its dimensions were evaluated by using Self-Determination Scale (Gomezvela.et.al,2012). In order to analysis the data, two way analyse of variance and repeated measures were used. The results indicated that students with intellectual disability gain lower score in self-determination rather than student without intellectual disability. Also there were not significant difference between boys and girls in total scores of self-determination, behavior autonomy and psychologically empowered dimensions. Only in self-realization there was a significant difference between girls and boys. The other results of this research is that, among the different dimension of self-determination between two groups students with and without intellectual disability, the higher rank accrued to psychological empowerment and the lower rank accrued to behavioral autonomy. Also according to the parents education levels, there was significant difference in total score of self-determination and its dimensions between both groups of students with and without intellectual disability.

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Psychology of Exceptional Individuals

A Comparison of Self-Determination and its Dimensions between Students with and without Intellectual Disability

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Volume 6, Issue 22
September 2015
Pages 139-150

A Comparison of Self-Determination and its Dimensions between Students with and without Intellectual Disability

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Volume 6, Issue 22September 2015Pages 139-150

Volume 6, Issue 22
September 2015
Pages 139-150