Self-esteem,general and sexual self-concepts in blind people

Background: people with visual disability have lower self-esteem and social skills than sighted people. this study was designed to describe self-esteem and general and sexual self-concepts in blind people. materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study,conducted in the isfahan university of medical sciences in 2013-2014. in this study,138 visually impaired people participated from isfahan province welfare organization and were interviewed for measuring of self-esteem and self-concept using eysenck self-esteem and rogers’ self-concept questionnaires. the correlation between above two variables was measured using statistical package for the social sciences (spss) software by pearson correlation test. results: mean [± standard deviation (sd)] age of patients was 30.9 ± 8 years. the mean (±sd) of general self-concept score was 11 ± 5.83. the mean (±sd) of self-esteem score was 16.62 ± 2.85. pearson correlation results showed a significant positive correlation between self-esteem and general self-concept (r = 0.19,p = 0.025). the mean of sexual self-concept scores in five subscales (sexual anxiety,sexual self-efficacy,sexual self-esteem,sexual fear,and sexual depression) were correspondingly 11 ± 4.41,19.53 ± 4.53,12.96 ± 4.19,13.48 ± 1.76,and 5.38 ± 2.36. self-esteem and self-concept had significant positive correlation with sexual anxiety (r = 0.49; p < 0.001) (r =-.23; p < 0.001) and sexual fear (r = 0.25; p = 0.003) (r = 0.18; p = 0.02) and negative correlation with sexual self-efficacy (r =-0.26; p = 0.002) (r =-0.28; p = 0.001) and sexual-esteem (r =-0.34; p < 0.001) (r =-0.34; p < 0.001). conclusion: self-esteem and self-concept had significant correlation with sexual anxiety and sexual fear; and negative correlation with sexual self-efficacy and sexual-esteem. © 2015 journal of research in medical sciences.