Time in the Context of Deafness
Time in the Context of Deafness

Summary/Abstract: Hearing impairment is the factor influencing individual experience and development.However, as it influences the identity development, it might also impact the temporalprocesses. The article analyses the three levels of psychological time in the context ofcontemporary research. The results are discussed in the frame of particularly crucialfactors such as communication, language and culture. Temporal perspective is describedin the context of world representation understood as a system of knowledge comprising anindividual’s beliefs. This system, which plays a regulative role in making choices, buildingattitudes towards the real world and solving problems, develops as the individual gainsexperience. However, hearing-impaired adolescents concentrate on the present events morethan their hearing peers.

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