Emotional development is also strongly affected by infantile and childhood visual impairment. Visually impaired infants may not respond and smile to humanfaces and may be misjudged as indifferent to social contact. Emotional development is also strongly affected by infantile and childhood visual impairment. Happiness, or “subjective wellbeing”, a term that is used synonymously, refers to the subjective assessment of quality of life.
Mean ages of visually impaired student were 12.37 where as in normal students it was 11.71. Mean emotional intelligence score for normal sighted students was 135.98with SD=8.49. In case of visually impaired students it was 107.93 with SD=10.25. Mean happiness index among normal sighted students was3.98 with SD=0.675. Among visually impaired students it was 3.03 with SD=0.471. There was moderate, positive correlation between social quotient and emotional intelligence which is statistically significant.
Conclusions:
Mean Trait-EI score was significantly lower among visually impaired student compared with normal sighted students. Happiness quotient was calculated using Oxford happinessquestionnaire. Mean happiness quotient was significantly lower among visually impaired students as compared with normal sighted controls. Emotional intelligence was found to be positively correlated with the happiness quotient.