A Diffeential Analysis On Social Adjustment Of Higher Secondary Students

Abstract

Social adjustment is concerned with one’s adjustment to his social surroundings. Such adjustment is as much essential as one’s adjustment with his self. Individual’s social adjustment starts from his parents, home and extended to the neighborhood, society etc. Social adjustment means reactions to the needs or reactions to the demands and pressures of social environment imposed upon the individual. An individual with a better social adjustment would be better adjusted with the society in which other people have their own personalities, motives and mechanisms of adjustment. The tem social adjustment can be defined as the degree to which a person fulfils the normative social expectations, behaviours that constitute his role. It is a continuous process by which a person modifies his behaviour in order to adapt himself to create a more harmonious relationship between himself and his environment. The present study aimed to conduct a differential analysis on the social adjustment of higher secondary students with respect to certain background variables namely, gender (boys & girls) and subject (arts & science) of student and locality (rural & urban), nature (government, govt. aided & self-financed) and type (boys’, girls’ and co-education) of school. The students studying at higher secondary level in higher secondary schools of Karur District of Tamil Nadu State were the population of the present study. Social Adjustment Inventory developed and validated by Ramachandran & Rajendran (2020) was used to measure the Social Adjustment of students. The higher secondary students in the higher secondary schools of Karur District of Tamil Nadu State were the population of the present study. The findings of the present study revealed that there was significant influence of gender of student and locality of school on the social adjustment of higher secondary students. On the contrary, subject of student and nature and type of school did not seem to have any significant influence on their psychological wellbeing. It is assured that the findings of the present study would help teachers and administrators of schools to look for the ways of enhancing social adjustment in students. The findings of the study also would be helpful in imbibing the importance and the needy values of social adjustment in students at all levels.