The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem in the Relationship between Parental Emotional Safety and the Quality of Life of Hearing-Impaired Adolescents

Razieh  Etesamipour; Elahe Ghaderi  yazn abad

doi:10.18502/tbj.v24i2.19659

Razieh Etesamipour Assistant Professor Department Of psychology, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran.
Elahe Ghaderi yazn abad Master's degree in Psychology of Children with Special Needs, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/tbj.v24i2.19659

Keywords: Self-esteem, Parents' Emotional Safety, Quality of Life, Hearing-Impaired Adolescents

Abstract

Introduction: Deafness is a common global problem that seriously threatens the quality of life of the person with the disorder. The present study was conducted with the aim of mediating the role of self- esteem in the relationship between parents' emotional safety and the quality of life of hearing-impaired teenagers.

Method: The present study is descriptive-correlational and path analysis type. The statistical population included all hearing-impaired students studying in the first secondary school of Tehran in the academic year 1402, from which, according to the theory of Hu and Bentler, the minimum required sample size was 210, which was determined by considering the probability of sample dropout to be 250. Using the cluster random sampling method, after excluding incomplete data, 217 students (124 boys and 93 girls) were selected as a valid sample for the final analysis and answered the emotional safety questionnaires of Bruner et al. (2008), Eysenck's self-esteem (1972), and the 26-item quality of life questionnaire of the World Health Organization (2004). Data analysis was performed using the statistical software SPSS 26 and Smart-PLS 3.

Results: Parents' emotional safety had a positive and significant direct effect on the quality of life and self-esteem of hearing-impaired adolescents (p<0/01). Self-esteem had a positive and significant direct effect on the quality of life of hearing-impaired adolescents in junior high school (p<0/01). Also, the indirect effect of self-esteem on the quality of life of hearing-impaired adolescents through parents' emotional safety was positive and significant (p<0/01).

Conclusion: Considering that the results of the current research are about the effect of parents' emotional safety on the quality of life of deaf teenagers, improving the psychological atmosphere of the family in improving the mental health of deaf children can lead to reducing the psychological problems of this group of teenagers.