A STUDY OF ADJUSTMENT OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL’S STUDENTS IN RELATION TO HABITAT OF DARBHANGA TOWN

Abstract

M.V.R. Raju and T. Khaja Rahamtulla (2007) to examine the adjustment problems of school students from urban and rural schools of Visakhapatnam district. Adjustment is a process by which a living organism maintains a balance between the needs and the circumstances. The variables included for the study apart from adjustment (family, social, academic, financial and emotional) are age, gender, class, type of school etc. The study was conducted on a sample of 461 students (197 boys, 264 girls) randomly selected from the various government and private schools from urban and rural areas of Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh. A standardized questionnaire developed by Jain (1972) was adopted for this study. The data was analyzed to examine the influence of individual factors on adjustment variables. The major findings of the study have shown that adjustment of school children is primarily dependent on the school variables like the class in which they are studying, the medium of instruction present in the school, and the type of management of the school. Parental education and occupation of the school children also significantly influenced adjustment. Manju Gehlawat (2011) to study the adjustment among high school students with respect to their gender. No significant differences were found in the emotional, social, educational and the total adjustment of students with respect to their gender. Thomas W. Farmer, Matthew J. Irvin, Jana H. Thompson (2006) examined the relationship between end-of- year grades and the academic, behavioral, and social characteristics of rural African American youth. Participants included 392 7th and 8th grade students from 2 rural middle schools in the south. Participants were African American and were from 2 communities that have child poverty rates exceeding 50% for public school students. Girls were more likely to have positive characteristics than boys. Academic, behavioral, and social difficulties were linked to low end-of- year grades, and positive characteristics were linked to high grades. Implications for supporting low-achieving African American students from low-resource communities are discussed. Dr. M.Y. Ganai and Muhammad Ashraf Mir (2013) were found No significant difference between male and female college students in terms of total scores obtained on the adjustment scale. The two groups also do not differ in terms of scores obtained separately on any dimension of the adjustment scale. Furthermore the two groups showed no significant difference in terms of their academic achievement. Yellaiah (2012) found that adjustment and academic achievement cause significant difference between male and female student. Government and private schools students and rural and urban school student do not cause difference between adjustment and academic achievement.