Effect of selected coping strategies on worry oriented academic stress of pupils with visual impairment in schools for the Blind South Eastern States of Nigeria
International Journal of Development Research
Effect of selected coping strategies on worry oriented academic stress of pupils with visual impairment in schools for the Blind South Eastern States of Nigeria
Received 03rd July, 2019; Received in revised form 20th August, 2019; Accepted 04th September, 2019; Published online 16th October, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Dr. Eke Vitalis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The study was designed to determine the effect of selected coping Strategies on the worry oriented academic stress of the pupils with visual impairment in school for the blind South Eastern Nigeria. The study was a non-equivalent control group pre-test and post-test quasi experimental design involving two treatments and one control. Multi-stage sampling cluster sampling and random sampling were used appropriately to arrive at the sample. The data obtained from the administration of the instrument were very organized and analysed using mean scores, standard deviation and a 3 x 2 Analysis of Covariance. The research findings showed that instructing the pupils with visual impairment –Goal setting and Effective time management reduced their academic worries.
