English abstract
This study aimed to identify future anxiety level in a sample of the hearing impaired and normal in Muscat governorate in the Sultanate of Oman. Moreover, it aimed to compare the level of anxiety between them, the differences in the level of future anxiety according to the gender variable. The researcher used the descriptive comparative approach to achieve these goals, they were applied on the samples of the study, which amounted to 550 males, and female students in the Muscat province, 354 out of them were normal students, 196 were students with hearing impairment.
The most important results of the study:
Future anxiety is low among the study sample, including students with hearing impairment and normal students. The study found that there are statistically significant differences between adolescent students with hearing impairment and normal students in the family scope, these differences were in favor of students with hearing impairment, the results indicated that there were no statistically significant differences between adolescent students with hearing impairment and normal students in the rest of the Anxiety Future Scale axes and in the overall degree. For the measure of future anxiety. The study also found statistically significant differences in all aspects of the future anxiety scale among a sample of adolescent students with hearing impairment according to the gender variable, in future anxiety in general, it is clear that these differences were in favor of males in all axes, at the level of the scale as a whole. This indicates findings that males with a hearing impairment are more anxious about their future than females. The study found that there were statistically significant differences between normal males and females in future anxiety related to the personal, social and health sphere, these differences were in favor of females.
