Anger-hostility and Paranoia Ideation among Person with Hard of Hearing

Abstract

Hearing impairment has become an enormous issue in public health worldwide as the prevalence of hearing impairment is growing especially among the elderly and couple with physical problems which had negative effects mental health. Study aimed to determine the association between hearing impairment and mental health of anger hostility and paranoia ideation among the 100 Aimol people with hearing impaired, and compared with 100 Aimol people who are having same demographic variables and with normal hearing, psychological evaluation was done using the two subscales of anger-hostility and paranoia ideation of the Symptoms CheckList (SCL-90): The assessment instruments used were: Symptoms CheckList (Derogatis, 2012). The results portrayed that the hearing impaired scored higher on anger-hostility and paranoia ideation than normal hearing among the samples which suggested that the urgent need of attention psychological cares for intervention.