Compare emotion regulation strategies, cognitive avoidance and emotional self-regulation in children with and without visual impairment

The aim of this study was comparing the emotion regulation strategies, cognitive and emotional self-regulation to avoid damage in children with and without visual impairment.
the method of this research was a survey study as a casual-comparative type. The population of this study included all of the blind students with the number of 30 and sighted students who were studying in the secondary school in the academic year of 2014-2015 in Ahvaz. Among the statistical population due to the low volume of the blind students, 30 students were selected based on census sampling and 30 sighted students were selected based on cluster sampling in 1st and 3rd district of Ahvaz. In order to collect the research data Emotion Regulation Questionnaire(Gornfsky), the scale of cognitive avoidance(Sextnodogas) and the scale of emotional self-regulation(Mars) were used. The obtained data were analyzed through multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). The results of the analysis of the study hypothesis showed that blind students in emotion regulation strategies, cognitive avoidance, and emotional self-regulation do have a significant difference with their sighted counterparts, meaning that they were lower in the mentioned variables from normal students (p According to the obtained results of this research schools with students who are blind, alongside the identification and characterization of emotional abilities in blind students, it is suggested that they have been trained to improve their cognitive abilities and regulate their emotions in various environments.