Students with Visual Impairment Suffer for their Academic Career and Professional Development: An Empirical Investigation of Test Anxiety and Coping Strategies

Abstract

World Health Organization (WHO) indicated around the globe there are 1.3 billion individuals live with some type of visual impairment. Therefore, visually impaired has a high prevalence pace of anxiety that inconsistency with the students. This thing lead toward depression in visually impaired students that block their educational and professional development. This study has a specific aim the impact of test anxiety self-perception on coping strategies in visually Impaired Students. In this study sample has been taken from special schools (Government & Private) of three main cities of that areas listed Multan, Lodhran and Bahawalpur. The sample for this study comprised over 100 visually impaired students on gender base that are equally participate. The result of study determined a significance negative connection between test anxiety and self-perception in visually impaired students, significance negative association between test anxiety and coping strategies and significant positive relationship among coping strategies and self-perception. While Self-Perception perfect mediate the relationship between test anxiety and coping strategies. The findings indicate that test anxiety has significant negative correlated with coping strategies in visually impaired students. While coping strategies has significant positive correlated with self-perception in visually impaired students.