The current study aims at identifying the levels of behavioral and emotional
problems and the levels of psychological compatibility as well as investigating the
relationship between them among a sample of students with visual impairment at
Omar bin Al-Khattab Institute for the Blind. The relational descriptive approach is
used to achieve the objectives of the study, while research questions are answered
based on the scale of behavioral and emotional problems of visually impaired
individuals developed by Salha (2007) and the psychological compatibility scale
prepared by Wafi (2006).
The study finds that the most behavioral and emotional problems among
students with visual impairment are the problems of fear and anxiety, followed by the
problem of self-affirmation and that their level of psychological compatibility is high.
Results show that there is a positive inverse correlation relationship with statistical
significance at the level of significance (α = 0.01) between the level of behavioral and
emotional problems and the psychological compatibility.
There are no statistically significant differences at the level of (α ≤ 0.05) in the
level of behavioral and emotional problems due to the two variables (gender and age
groups), except for dependency problems, hostility, fear and anxiety, and self affirmation in favor of the age group (15-17 years), and the problem Skepticism in favor of the age group (18-20 years). There is an absence of statistically significant
differences at the level of significance (α ≤ 0.05) between males and females in the
level of psychological compatibility, and a presence of differences in the level of psychological compatibility due to variable age groups (18-20 years). The study
concludes that behavioral and emotional problems can be predicted in the psychological compatibility of students with visual impairment at the Omar bin Al Khattab Institute for the Blind.