CONGENITAL BLIND AND SIGHTED

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DIFFERENCE

Abstract

Background: Visual impaired people have difficulty perceiving the nonverbal
cues and human conversation. While understanding of a conversation greatly relies and depend
on nonverbal cues .this deficiency generate many problems. It affect on their perception of
external environment thinking and on their interpersonal skill. Objective: of the present study
is to investigate the effects of congenital blind on interpersonal intelligence and adoptability.
Research Design: The research design for the present research was Independent Subject
design, Sample and Method: The samples consist of 60 schools going adolescent that is 30
students from special education institute (visual impaired) and 30 students from main stream
ranging from age 11-18 year with the middle socioeconomic class. Period: November 2013 to
june2014. Data source setting different schools of Karachi city. It is hypothesized that there is
a significance difference in interpersonal intelligence and adoptability between visual impaired
and sighted adolescents. Bar-on emotional quotient inventory youth version (EQ: Yv.200) was
used to assess emotional intelligence and for statistical interpretation of data t-test was used.
Conclusion: The finding of the research indicates that there is no significance difference in
interpersonal intelligence as well as in adoptability.