A Study Of Intellectual Ability And Adjustment Of Retired People Of District Srinagar

Abstract

The effectiveness of the individual’s effort to meet his needs and adapt to his environment is called adjustment. It is a process by which individual tries to bring harmony, stable and satisfying relationship with his environment. Aging is a natural phenomenon that refers to changes, which occur during the life span and results in differences in structure and function between the youth and the elderly. Old age is the stage of life, when problems increase manifold. Present study is an attempt to analyze the problems of retired people. The study was conducted on 100 migrated retired people residing in district Srinagar. The sample was contacted on purposive sampling basis. It was ensured that the sample were males belonging to the nuclear setup and having average socio-economic status. To study the intellectual ability of the retired people; tool employed was Advanced Progressive Matrices Scale by Raven (2001) and it was found that most of the retired people have average intellectual ability. To study adjustment, the tool employed was Shamshad Jasbir Old Age Adjustment Inventory (SJOAI) by Hussain and Kaur, it was found that retired people have problems in the home, social, emotional, martial and financial areas of adjustment which need to be addressed for developing positive mental health of the retired people. The study further revealed that People between 60-70 years are better adjusted than those between 71 & above.