Personality correlates of keratoconus
pp. 243-250
in: William E. Fann, Ismet Karacan, Alex D. Pokorný, Robert L. Williams (eds), Phenomenology and treatment of psychophysiological disorders, Berlin, Springer, 1982Abstract
There is evidence that ophthalmic disorders are often accompanied by emotional stress (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). Moreover, there is support in the literature for the contention that emotions are linked to visual impairment (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15). Nevertheless, the role of vision in the development of personality—or vice versa—has been neglected by behavioral scientists. In an early attempt at describing personality characteristics in farsightedness and myopia, Rice (16, 17) suggested that vision was one of the determinants in the development of a child's character and that farsightedness or myopia led to the development of certain personality types.