Assessment of Adjustment Pattern of Higher Secondary School Students in Relation to Academic Streams and Social Category

Life is a series of adjustments, better the adjustment the more is success in life. The capacity of adjustment helps the individual fitting him to given circumstances and also fulfills one's needs. It is an active and reciprocal relationship between the individual and his/her surroundings which is very much essential in case of young generation, as the lacking of the adjustment capacity leads to various personality complexities among the younger. The various factors like psychological factors, psycho-social factors, physiological factors, etc. are more and less influential in forming adjustment pattern of individuals. Again the relationship between adjustment and achievement has been the subject of study for the scholars interested in the field of education for long times. Present researchers tied to study the pattern of adjustment among the Higher Secondary School going students in respect to two attribute variables i.e., academic streams and categories. Hence, the problem identified was titled as ‘Assessment of Adjustment Pattern of Higher Secondary School Students in relation to Academic Streams and Social Category'. For this purpose researchers took 300 (N=300) Higher Secondary level students with different social categories studying in various streams as their sample of the study. Adjustment Inventory developed by Sinha and Singh has been used to measure the level of adjustment. The findings of the study revealed that there was no difference in adjustment among the students of various academic streams but differences among social categories in the adjustment were found significantly.