Review of Personality, Anxiety and Adjustment of Learning Disabled Children

Intelligence is the base of mental capacity, a set of abilities which help a person to learn, and perform accurately. Still there is category of children named 'Learning Disability' who have average or above average level of intelligence, but they cannot perform their tasks as quickly and accurately as others can do. The present study is an in depth study of reviews where researchers compared various personality traits, anxiety expressions and adjustment levels of learning disabled children in comparison to non impaired children. There have been researches from decades which found a significant difference in the self-concept, aggressiveness, anxiety levels (Margalit & Zak, 1984; Rodriguez & Routh, 1989) autonomy (Margalit & Shulman, 1986) and academic achievement of learning disabled children as compare to non-impaired children. Rani (1865) compared the personality traits of children with learning disabilities and normal school going children; and found that the personality profile of children with learning disability was significantly different from the normal children. There are studies that show contradicting results too. The present study deeply analyzed and discussed the work of various researchers who have worked on personality traits, anxiety and adjustment of learning disabled children.