Abstract:

Self-esteem is one of the most researched areas within the framework of educational psychology, personality psychology and social psychology. However, disability as a social phenomenon has always been widely seen as a fundamental problem in terms of social relations. Particularly, the participation of disabled children in various sports activities, which play an important role in the development of their self-esteem, is quite limited. Therefore, the inability of hearing-impaired children to participate in various sports activities, which is one of the important basic critical elements of adolescence, causes their feelings of exclusion to increase and their self-esteem is negatively affected. The aim of this study is to examine the self-esteem symptom levels of handball players with hearing impairment. The data of the research conducted for this purpose were obtained in 2019 and the sample group consisted of a total of 78 people, 39 of whom were hearing impaired and 39 were in the control group. Demographic Structure Information Form and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale were used in the research. The obtained data were analyzed in SPSS program. As a result of the research, since the ANOVA significance value of the handball players in the hearing impaired and control groups is greater than 0.05, it shows that there is no significant difference between the compared averages of the hearing impaired handball players and the non-hearing impaired (control group) handball players. This study has shown that hearing impaired people's participation in sports activities contributes positively to their self-esteem. As a result, no significant difference was found between disabled and non-disabled handball players in terms of self-esteem.

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