Adolescent School Students and Social Adjustment – A Psychosocial Study

Abstract

Adolescence is an important stage of development in which adolescents undergo many physical, psychological and social changes and they need to adjust to the social environment consisting of parents, elders at home, siblings, friends, peers, teachers and significant others in the environment.  When the adolescents fail to fulfill this requirement, it creates problem in their positive growth and development. The ‘Adolescent School Students and Social Adjustment’ is a descriptive study measure the social adjustment level of the adolescent school students and suggest suitable rehabilitative measure in the form of life skills intervention for their holistic development. The study universe belong to 1399 adolescent students studying IX, X, XI and XII standards respectively among which 700 students have been chosen for data collection by adopting systematic random sampling technique. For the current study, a scale invented by Dr.Roma Pal in the year 1985 named ‘Social Adjustment Inventory’ is used for collecting the data  and the analysis and interpretation has been carried out by using SPSS. Correlation test between age and social adjustment, ANOVA test among the respondents education, occupation of the respondents parents and the researcher has also done Chi-square test that was done between the number of siblings and social adjustment has also been performed. Findings and suggestions are incorporated in the article.