Peculiarities of development of need for achievement among older teenagers with visual impairment

Matrokhina Alina Pavlovna, Khaidov Sergei Kurbanovich

The article presents the urgency of studying the problem of need for achievement among older teenagers with visual impairment, provides and proves a diagnostic programme aimed at examination of this process. The results received through the statistical programme SPSS 21 went through quantitative and qualitative analysis. Following methods were used to analyze the results of the research: correlation analysis of Spearman, Mann–Whitney’s U criterion, descriptive statistics.

Keywords:need for achievement, pursuit of success, avoidance of failure, teenagers with visual impairment, diagnostic study.