Abstract

Nowadays disability is rapidly increasing in society. It is very important to find some sustainable solutions to their emotional, social, and physical difficulties from childhood. This research focuses on the psychological problems of physically disabled adolescents. Emotional intelligence and adjustment are important psychological factors to survive in society. Laughter therapy is the best alternative therapy in the world. The effect of laughter therapy on the mental, physical, and social state of human beings was evaluated by researchers. In this research, the researcher concentrated on the emotional intelligence and adjustment of physically disabled adolescents. The aim of the current study was to study the effect of laughter therapy on emotional intelligence and adjustment among physically disabled adolescents. This was a quasi-experimental, control experimental prepost study. A sample of 60 males and females is taken for this study and their age range was 13-19 years. For this study, the emotional intelligence scale and the Adjustment inventory for school students were used. Mean, S.D., independent, and paired sample t-tests were used for the analysis of collected data. The researcher focused on emotional intelligence and its sub-factors along with the emotional, social, and educational adjustment of disabled adolescents. Results showed that laughter therapy intervention significantly affects post-test scores of emotional intelligence and adjustment of physically disabled adolescents. In the conclusion, the researcher concludes that laughter therapy intervention is very useful for physically disabled adolescents to improve their emotional intelligence and adjustment. Through the laughter therapy intervention physically disabled adolescents experienced self-awareness, calmness, more positive emotions, better social connections, enhanced positive emotion coping mechanisms, good emotional adjustment.