The relationship of emotional intelligence and personality characteristics with functional brain asymmetry in persons with hearing impairment

This article presents the results of a comparative study on the study of indicators of emotional intelligence and personal behavioral characteristics of boys and girls with diagnoses related to the nosological group of ear and mastoid diseases with various types of functional asymmetry. The main sample consisted of 87 boys and girls studying at the Novocherkassk Technological College Boarding and the Don Pedagogical College with hearing impairments at the age of 18 to 26 years. The average age of the respondents is 21.5 years. The following methods were used in the study: (1) emotional intelligence test by D.V. Liusina; (2) N. Hall's emotional intelligence test; (3) a questionnaire of formal-dynamic properties of individuality by V.M. Rusalova; (4) abbreviated multivariate personality questionnaire (Mini-mult questionnaire); (5) Hardware-software complex «Functional asymmetries». As part of the statistical data processing, the Mann-Whitney U-test was used to study the statistical significance of differences. As a result of an empirical study, it was revealed that there are differences in the severity of various indicators of emotional intelligence, behavioral characteristics (within the psychomotor, intellectual and communicative spheres), as well as personality traits («depression», «paranoia», «hypochondria», «psychasthenia», «hysteria», «psychopathy», «hypomania», «schizoidness») in persons with persistent hearing impairments relative to the control group of persons without hearing impairments. Statistically significant differences in the manifestation of emotional intelligence parameters and personality characteristics in persons with hearing impairment in groups with different degrees of hearing loss, types of functional asymmetry and gender were revealed. The novelty of the study lies in the study of differences in the specifics of the manifestation of emotional intelligence indicators in individuals of the same nosological group of ear diseases, taking into account functional interhemispheric asymmetry. The work was carried out as part of the dissertation research of the author.