Adjustment among senior secondary school students in relation to gender and locus of control

In the present study an attempt has been made to study the adjustment among senior secondary school students in relation to gender and locus of control. To achieve the objectives of the study, a sample of 200 male and 200 female senior secondary students was selected randomly from 20 senior secondary schools taken at random from all the senior secondary schools of District Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. Bells Adjustment Inventory (Student form) by Ojha (1994) in Hindi and Locus of Control Scale (LCS) by Husain and Joshi (1992) were used for the collection of the requisite data from the selected subjects. 2X3 Analysis of Variance involving two levels of gender i.e. male and female and three levels of locus of control i.e. internal, moderate and external, was employed for the analysis of the data. Significant differences were found in the home adjustment of boys and girls irrespective of the levels of locus of control whereas no significant differences were found in health, social, emotional and overall adjustment. Further, statistically no significant differences were found in the different areas of adjustment namely home, health, social, emotional and overall adjustment of students with internal, moderate and external locus of control irrespective of their gender. Gender and locus of control were not found to have significant interactional effects on different areas of adjustment namely home, health, social, emotional and overall adjustment of the senior secondary school students.