This study aims to discover the factors and process of growth by which the blind,
who had acquired a sight disability at some point in their lives, experience the positive
changes of life after the traumatic event. This study contributes to providing a
differentiated service by investigating the growth factors that the people suffering
acquired blindness go through after trauma, by understanding the essence of
experience, and by determining the causes that make growth possible after the trauma.
Also, this study helps the acquired blind people to develop their own abilities and to
achieve psychological and social growth by providing basic information.
The method of research is the phenomenological analysis method, one of in-depth
approach, which Colaizzi suggested is selected and applied to figure out the causes and
the process of the growth that the people with acquired blindness experience.
The research result was that 205 of the meaningful sentences were extracted
from the analysis of the growth experiences that people with acquired blindness suffer
after the trauma. The extracted sentences, again, draw 66 composition meanings, 24
topics, and 10 agendas as a conclusion.
This study presents the individual and empirical factors and the process of
post-traumatic growth for the blind, which have the potential to become the
preliminary, basic information that will help to come up with differentiation and a more
sophisticated growth process after the trauma.