The Predictability of Self-concept, Psychological Hardness, and Psychological Security Associated to Social Behavior Among Hearing- Impaired Secondary School Students in Palestine

Abstract

The study aims to identify the predictability of self-concept, psychological hardness, and psychological security associated to social behavior among hearing impaired secondary school students in Palestine. The study aims also toinvestigate the impact level of each of the above variables, with relevant to its average differences based on gender as the main variable. The methodology of this study uses the descriptive and predictive approach, by applying scaling method on the study variables of self-concept, psychological hardness, psychological security, and social behavior on a random sample of 135 students enrolled in schools for special and govermental education in Palestine including hearing impaired students for the year 2019/2020, representing .57% of the study population. The results showed that the level of self-concept, psychological hardness, psychological security, and social behavior was moderate. The results also shows that there are no significant differences in the averages of self-concept, psychological hardness, and psychological security among hearing- impaired students in Palestine based on gender, while the differences in the averages of social behavior are in favor to males. The results shows a statistically significant positive correlation between social behavior and each of self-concept, psychological hardness, and psychological security among hearing-impaired students. Moreover, the results indicate that there is a statistically significant effect for self-concept and psychological hardness in predicting the level of social behavior, where the self-concept explicates 37.0% of the total percentage of the variation level of social behavior, while both self-concept and psychological hardness together sort out 40.1% of this percentage, while psychological security don’t contribute statistically to predicting social behavior. The remaining 59.9% attributed to other variables that aren’t included in the regression model, which means that there are other independent variables that may play a fundamental role in explaining the level of social behavior. The regression equation is as follows: y =.668+.572 x1+.259 x2, which explains that, whenever the self-concept changes by one degree, a positive change occurs in social behavior by a value of .572, and whenever the psychological hardness changes by one degree, a positive change occurs in social behavior by a value of .259.