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,

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.

parental occupation

adjustment as achievement it is needed to judge the quality of adjustment.

Adjustment is the behavioural process which human and other animals keep a balance among their multiple

needs or between their needs and the hurdles of their environment. Progression of adjustment starts when a

demand is felt and ends with the satisfaction. Adjustment is a continuous process in which a person varies his

behavior to produce a more harmonic relationship between himself and his environment (Gates & Jersild).

Adjustment process involves four parts:

1. A need or motive in the form of a strong constant stimulus

2. The uncomfortable and non accomplishment of this need

3. Wide ranging activity accompanied by problem solving

4. Some response that removes or reduces the initiating stimulus and complete the adjustment.

Therefore, adolescences are at risk in observable behaviour, as adolescence is at developmental stage with high

risks in terms of psychological problems, subjective well-being, and adjustment. Adolescent is an important

periods of human life. It is a period of physical and psychological development involving cognitive, effective,

social and academic changes. Most of them have remarkable challenges in adjusting and coping with such

challenges. These may affect on their mental status, increasing the vulnerability of mental health issues.

Explicating adjustment as an achievement involves evaluating an individual’s performance based on certain

parameters or expectations. Psychologists focus on effective performance in meeting societal expectations,

adherence to cultural norms, and the fulfillment of responsibilities. This perspective entails judging the quality

of adjustment against predefined criteria, considering it an achievement when an individual successfully aligns

comfort with their environment, and expect that their needs will be fulfilling in the future through their social

network.

Adjustment is the process of finding and adopting modes of behavior suitable to the environment or the changes

in the environment (Carter V. Good, 1959). Life is a continuous chain of changes and challenges. Hence the

technique used by the individual to manage this is called adjustment. Sometimes, the efforts given by individual

are successful and satisfying which is called good adjustment. But if a person faces disturbance in his/her efforts

incessantly, then it might be lead to mal adjustment.

Researchers found that girls from foster home and biological families exhibited higher level of adjustment in all

the domains than boys, majority of the respondents from both the family settings were found to be average or

above in all the domains of adjustment. However, 25% (approx) of the students were seen to be having

educational schools have better levels of adjustment(Mandeep B; Manpreet K,2019)

in the school subjects, usually designated by test score or marks assigned by the teachers (Good 1995).

Achievement is generally used in education, industry, civil service, clinical purposes and also for guidance &

counselling for various significant activities like assignment of grades, promotion to next class, classification of

individuals, counselling and remedial teaching, vocational guidance, measuring the effectiveness of learning

situations and selection of individuals.(R. Bhardwaj,2014)

into account of emotional, behavioural and social aspects.

The adjustment refers to the capability of an individual in bringing a balance between its need and his/her

a proper form.

is explicit performances, adjustment to other social groups, productive social attitudes and personal adjustment.

matriculation examination.

Statement of the problem is a brief description of an issue, circumstance, or difficulty that needs to be determined.

In the present study the statement of the problem is “comparative study of adjustment level, parental income and

academic achievement of adolescent girls of two districts of Assam”

Rural students are more adjusted in home, health, social and emotional area while urban students were more

adjusted in educational area. No significant difference was found all the five areas of adjustment of college going

students of science and arts stream.

secondary schools of Patiala District. Findings showed the equal maturity level of boys and girls adolescents.

Also found no significant relationship between adjustment and emotional maturity of adolescents.

was to study the emotional adjustment, social adjustment and educational adjustment of male and female

adolescents in relation to gender. The sample consisted of 120 adolescents that was collected from different

school of Ahmadabad city. 60 males and 60 females from age group of 14 years to 18 years were selected. Self

structured questionnaire was used for the study. Result revealed the average level of adjustment.. Significant

differences were found in emotional adjustment of secondary school students. No significant differences were

found between male and female students in relations to social, educational and financial adjustment.

After review of the literature of adjustment of students of secondary school students, it has been found that

adjustment are intensively explored by different researchers with male-female, rural –urban, arts-science and

academic achievement . No research has been found in regards to parental income. No research has found for

condition or health status, intelligence level, degree of emotional control, habitual attitudes, social and vocational

interest etc. Rarely does any one of these personal characteristics, of itself, function as a problem stimulus. Many

of the adjustment problems of young people seem to reflect unhygienic home conditions. Ongoing difficulties

in social and emotional adjustment may be accompanied by anxiety and depression. Parental attitudes and home

and family situations may lead to a young person experiencing adjustment problems.

1. To study the adjustment level of female adolescent students of two districts, Morigaon and Sonitpur.

2. To compare the home adjustment of female adolescent students of two districts.

3. To compare the social adjustment of female adolescent students of two districts.

4. To compare the health adjustment of female adolescent students of two districts.

5. To compare the emotional adjustment of female adolescent students of two districts.

6. To study the relationship between adjustment level and academic achievement, parental income and

Sunitpur district on their social adjustment.

On the basis of objective 4, following null hypothesis was formulated:

Table-1. Shows the Percentages of responses of female adolescent from Sonitpur and Morigaon District on

four dimensions of adjustment

Morigaon District

Sonitpur district. No excellent adjustment and very unsatisfactory level of home adjustment are found among

Morigaon district is higher than Sonitpur district. Average level of adjustment for adolescents of Morigaon is

higher than Sonitpur. No good and excellent level of social adjustment experienced by female adolescents from

both the districts.

Fig-4: showing the Percentages of responses on Emotional adjustment of female Adolescents from Sonitpur