A Comparative Study of Adjustment Level, Parental Income and Academic Achievement of Adolescent Girls

Adjustment is the behavioural process which human and other animals keep a balance among their needs and the hurdles of their environment. Progress of adjustment starts when a demand is felt and ends with the satisfaction. Adolescent is the most important and crucial periods of human life. It is a period of physical and psychological development involving cognitive, effective, social and academic changes. Most of them have incredible challenges in adjusting and coping with those challenges. These may affect on their mental state, increasing the vulnerability of mental health issues. Adjustment problems of adolescence may be the result of unhealthy home conditions, negative parental attitudes, home and family environment etc. These situations may lead to an adolescent experiencing adjustment problems. The present study was undertaken to see the differences of adjustment at home, social, health and emotional dimensions of adolescent girl students of class-XI of two districts of Middle Assam. The Bell’s Adjustment Inventory by Dr. R. K. Ojha was administered to measure the adjustment of the adolescent girls. For this study 44 female adolescent students were randomly selected from government secondary school of Sonitpur and Morigaon district each. Statistics such as Mean, SD, frequencies and percentages were used. The data were further analyzed using t-test to find significant differences between adolescent girl students of two districts on the four dimensions of adjustment, and the relations between adjustment and academic achievement. Matriculation exam results of the students were considered as an academic achievement. Findings showed that there are significant differences in total adjustment as well as health and emotional adjustment level between two districts of female students and adjustment level against the academic achievement, and parental income and academic achievement. There is no significant differences between home and social adjustment of female adolescents of both districts.

Adjustment, parents, adolescent girl, secondary school, academic achievement, parental income, parental occupation

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