Spirituality, age, gender and academic self – Efficacy as determinants of psychological well – being of secondary school students with hearing impairment in Enugu state, Nigeria

Adebomi M Oyewumi, Anieke Lazarsus

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This study investigated the influence of spirituality, age, gender, and academic self-efficacy on the psychological well-being of secondary school students with hearing impairment in Enugu State, Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. A multistage sampling technique was used to select one hundred and twenty five (125) students with hearing impairment. Four research questions were raised and answered. The Ryff Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWBS) (r = 0.76), Academic Self-Efficacy Scale (ASES) (r = 0.88) and Spiritual Experience Index – Revised (SEI-R) (r = 0.65) were used for data collection. Data was analysed using frequency counts, Pearson’s product moment correlation and multiple regression. The results revealed that psychological well-being has a significant correlation with sex (r = -0.240, p<0.05), age (r = 0.151, p<0.05), academic self-efficacy (r = -0.180, p < 0.05) and spirituality experience (r = 0.496, p <0.05) of the respondents. The results further showed that all the independent variables made relative contribution to psychological well-being. It is therefore recommended that the government and its agencies, as well as spiritual / religious leaders, should place more emphasis on how to improve psychological well-being for students with hearing impairment.

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Psychological well-being, spirituality, academic self-efficacy, hearing impairment

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